They are powerful, but they need to work together to bring about change in the world. Gorman is keen to depict women’s strength: they are victors, rather than victims. At the event, the poet encouraged the women in the audience to rise up and speak their truth to power, in rousing lines which emphasise the collective power of women (much as another poet, Audre Lorde, had some decades before). Gorman read this poem at Variety’s Power of Women event presented by Lifetime. It could almost be a poem of the apocalypse. The focus here is on the extreme ends of climate change: man becoming a ‘myth’, extinction of living things, and things turning to dust.
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