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Adrienne Rich
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
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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…
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Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion -Cheryl Strayed, Wild
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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Relationships–partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal–are the deep fabric of this forceful collection by renowned poet Rich.
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…
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A volume of poems including two longer works - Sources and Contradictions - Tracking Poems , an ongoing index of an American woman’s life.
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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…
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…
The final volume of poems assembled by America’s most powerful and distinctive voice.
Hilary Holladay
The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered, National Book Award-winning poet –
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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.
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…
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…
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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.
A challenging collection that should more than satisfy [Rich’s] large and loyal following. -Washington Post Book World
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…
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.
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 –
Liz Yorke
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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…
Explores how Rich’s work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.
Soghra Nodeh
American women’s works has a shape, a history, a process of evolution that can be traced over time (Showalter, American Gynocriticm 112). Adrienne Rich, being one of the most outstanding…
Clayton Eshleman
A penetrating exploration of poetic life by a veteran poet, translator, and editor.
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…
The collected works of Adrienne Rich, one of the most influential and political American poets of the last century (The Guardian).
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…
Ariane Avila Neto de Farias
O presente trabalho tem como principal a reflexao acerca dos diferentes sujeitos femininos trazidos pela poesia de Adrienne Rich. A partir do corpora selecionado da poeta estadunidense, pretende-se refletir sobre…
Paul Wadden
This book pushes beyond modern/postmodern dichotomies to show how Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich, two of America’s most prominent poets, engage in a process that is both dialectic and holotropic…
