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Adrienne Rich
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
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I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures…
Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
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Hilary Holladay
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A comprehensive biography of . . . one of the most acclaimed poets of her generation and a face of American feminism."-New…
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Professor Alec Marsh
"Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such…
Jeannette E. Riley
Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of awards ranging from the Bollingen Prize, to the National Book Award, to the…
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A challenging collection that should more than satisfy [Rich’s] large and loyal following. -Washington Post Book World
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The final volume of poems assembled by America’s most powerful and distinctive voice.
The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered, National Book Award-winning poet –
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Relationships–partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal–are the deep fabric of this forceful collection by renowned poet Rich.
Ariane Avila Neto de Farias
The main purpose of this paper is to reflect on the different female subjects brought up by Adrienne Rich's poetry. Based on the selected corpora of the American poet, the…
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
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Amy Sickels
This series explores the lives of well-known writers, who often struggled with the perceptions created by their sexual preference. Considered by some the poet laureate of radical feminism, Rich has…
Assesses the full scope of Adrienne Rich’s long career from 1957 to her death in 2012 through a chronological exploration of her poetry and prose. Throughout, Understanding Adrienne Rich interweaves…
Los admiradores de Rich reconoceran la compleja simbiosis entre la activista y la creadora del nuevo lenguaje, cada una impulsando y provocando las palabras de la otra.
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The risk this book quietly takes, and impressively fulfills, is no less than to get life said…. Newly freed from the metrical conventions of her earlier books, Adrienne Rich has…
Leaflets is Adrienne Rich’s fifth book of poems. It contains twenty-eight new poems, five adaptations of Dutch, Yiddish, and Russian poets, and a sequence of seventeen poems loosely based on…
The Will to Change is an extraordinary book of poems…It has the urgency of a prisoner’s journal: patient, laconic, eloquent, as if determined thoughts were set down in stolen moments…
The final volume of poems assembled by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.
In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of The Dream of a Common Language and Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love…
This is a reissue in a new format of a book of verse by Adrienne Rich, whose Collected Early Poems 1950-1970 was chosen as one of the Top Twenty titles…
A volume of poems including two longer works - Sources and Contradictions - Tracking Poems , an ongoing index of an American woman’s life.
Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich explores in this collection the intricacies of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a U.S. citizen, both at this time of…
This collection of prose writings by Adrienne Rich, an American poet and feminist theorist, reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. Issues explored include the politics of…
This work contains over 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich’s first six books, as well as a dozen others written between 1950 and 1970.
This work provides a collection of poems by Adrienne Rich. Her explorations examine the themes of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both.
Adrienne Rich extends her poetic language as witness to the treasures - the midnight salvage - we rescue from fear and fragmentation.
This is a collection of essays and poems, by Adrienne Rich, that chart America’s changing mental, emotional and moral landscape.
The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich’s opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the…
Confronts dislocations and upheavals at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This work traces the imprint of public crisis upon individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself…
A collection of poems that draws on the artistic means of a lifetime.
Explores the complex relationship between art and social justice. This collection of essays examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and transformations…
A Change of World was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of…
Cheri Colby Langdell
In doing so, it clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women’s sexuality. The volume covers the full progression of her…
This Norton Critical Edition brings research into this beloved poet’s body of work completely up to date.
The author of Dreams of a Common Language , Your Native Land, Your Life and Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law presents a new collection of poetry which focuses on the power…
Sixty years of poems from a National Book Award winner and pioneering writer, activist and intellectual.
Claire Keyes
In The Aesthetics of Power, Claire Keyes examines the shape and scope of Rich’s poetry as it applies to Rich’s female aesthetic. Keyes uncovers the process by which Rich embraces…
Liz Yorke
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Ed Pavlic
The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships –
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich’s Ghost of a Chance, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Adrienne Rich’s Rusted Legacy, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) was one of the most significant and influential American poets of the 20th century. Her poetry confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with…
Now in its ninth year, The Best American Poetry is universally acclaimed as the best anthology in the field. The compilation includes a diverse abundance of poems published in 1995…
Clayton Eshleman
A penetrating exploration of poetic life by a veteran poet, translator, and editor.
The collected works of Adrienne Rich, one of the most influential and political American poets of the last century (The Guardian).
