Sarah Kirsch (April 16, 1935 to May 5, 2013) was a poet. She was born in Limlingerode (Germany), studied in Halle and Leipzig, and until 1977 she lived in East Berlin. From what I can tell from her Der Spiegel obituary, she was married to fellow writer Rainer Kirsch from 1960 to 1968. Her first major publication was titled Spells (1973). Google translates the critical reaction to Spells this way:
The writer Adolf Endler praised it as " the freest in sexual or erotic ways of poems from all over the known to us ( and relevant ) German woman poetry "
I don't know how dramatic her move to West Berlin in 1977 was. She has been much honored for her writing, and she also was a painter. She lived many years in her home in Schleswig-Holstein.
Not a lot of her writing is available in English but we have a volume translated by Marina Roscher, and edited by Charles M. Fishman. This 1991 publication has an introduction by Carolyn Forche, who picks out that the poets love cats:
/ The uncontrollable gentle / Free who laze away....
The title of this book of poetry in English is Catlives.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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