![Backyards, Greenwich Village - 1914](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Backyards_Greenwich_Village_Kaddish-470x140.jpg?x81652)
By: Allen Ginsberg Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village….
![Adrienne Rich](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2011/10/adrienne-rich1-434x140.jpg?x81652)
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was one of America’s foremost public intellectuals. Widely read and hugely influential, Rich’s career spanned seven decades and has hewed…
![Parliament Hill Fields, Sylvia Plath](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Parliament-Hill-Fields-Sylvia-Plath-470x140.jpg?x81652)
By: Sylvia Plath On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Faceless and pale as china The round sky goes on minding its…
![Dying Flowers by Oboro Nin - Sonnet: To Eva, Sylvia Plath](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Dying_Flowers_by_Oboro_Nin-Sonnet-To-Eva-Sylvia-Plath-470x140.jpg?x81652)
By: Slyvia Plath All right, let’s say you could take a skull and break it The way you’d crack a clock; you’d crush the bone…
![Eaton Interior - Dresses_Franz_Kafka](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/12/Eaton-Interior-Dresses_Franz_Kafka-470x140.jpg?x81652)
By: Franz Kafka Often when I see dresses with many pleats and frills and flounces, draped beautifully over beautiful bodies, then I think to myself…