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The Power of Adrienne Rich

Author : Hilary Holladay
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0385541503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Adrienne Rich written by Hilary Holladay and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet. Adrienne Rich was the female face of American poetry for decades. Her forceful, uncompromising writing has more than stood the test of time, and the life of the woman behind the words is equally impressive. Motivated by personal revelations, Rich transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of prose as well as poetry. In doing so, she emerged as both architect and exemplar of the modern feminist movement, breaking ranks to denounce the male-dominated literary establishment and paving the way for the many queer women of letters to take their places in the cultural mainstream. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished materials, including Rich's correspondence and in-depth interviews with numerous people who knew her, Hilary Holladay digs deep into never-before-accessed sources to portray Rich in full dimension and vivid, human detail.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039386734X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.

The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348164
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1971-05-17 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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." —David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review "The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...It includes moments when poverty and heroism explode grammer with their own dignified unsyntactical demands...The poems are about departures, about the pain of breaking away from lovers and from an old sense of self. They discover the point where loneliness and politics touch, where the exercise of the radical courage takes its inevitable toll."—David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review

Poetry and Commitment

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079724
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Commitment written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world. "I hope never to idealize poetry—it has suffered enough from that. Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard."

Essential Essays

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 039365236X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Essential Essays written by Adrienne Rich and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Rich’s essays unite the political, personal, and poetical like no other. Essential Essays is edited and includes an introduction by leading feminist scholar, literary critic, and poet Sandra M. Gilbert. Emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement, the essays selected here range from the 1960s to 2008. The volume contains one of Rich’s earliest essays,“When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” which discusses the need for female self-definition, along with excerpts from her ambitious, ground-breaking Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. As the New York Times wrote, Rich “brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse,” as evidenced in her 1980 essay, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Also among these insightful and forward-thinking works are: “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity”; excerpts from What Is Found There, about the need to reexamine the literary canon; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts”; “Poetry and the Forgotten Future”; and other writings that profoundly shaped second-wave feminism, each balanced by Rich’s signature blend of research, theory, and self-reflection.

The Aesthetics of Power

Author : Claire Keyes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820333514
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Power written by Claire Keyes and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When still a senior at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich was selected as a Yale Younger Poet. The judge, W.H. Auden, wrote the introduction to her first book of poems. Thus Rich's career was launched by one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century, someone Rich herself admired and emulated. Adrienne Rich's early mentors were men, and her early poetry consequently adopted a strong male persona. In her development as artist, woman, and activist, however, Rich emerged as a leading voice of modern feminism--a voice which rejects a male-dominated world, forcing new definitions of power, new possibilities for women, and profound repercussions for society. 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, then rejects, accepted uses of power, achieving a vision of beneficent female power. In her early poems, Adrienne Rich accepts certain traditions associated with the divisions of power according to sex. Later, Rich continually defines and redefines power until she can reject power-as-force (patriarchal power) for the power-to-transform, which, for her, is the truly significant and essential power. Surveying Rich's poetry and prose from 1951 to the present, this book traces the development of Adrienne Rich's new understanding of the power of the poet and the power of woman. Sharing Rich's feminist sensibilities, yet at times critical of her more radical positions, Claire Keyes draws a portrait of an artist who was molded by the complex political and social climate of post-World War II America. It is a portrait that reveals the creative growth of an artist, and the personal growth of a powerful and controversial woman.

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079678
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tonight No Poetry Will Serve written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.

Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348059
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-09-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich's first six books, plus a dozen others of those decades. From their first publication, when Rich was twenty-one, in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, the successive volumes of her poetry have both charted the growth of her own mind and vision and mirrored our tempestuous, unsettled age. Her unmistakable voice, speaking even from the earliest poems with rare assurance and precision, wrestles with urgent questions while never failing to explore new poetic territory. In Collected Early Poems, readers will once again bear witness to Rich's triumphant assertion of the centrality of poetry in our intertwined personal and political lives.

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345750
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim—to discover—what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "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 that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.

Collected Poems: 1950-2012

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039328512X
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems: 1950-2012 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society. This collected volume traces the evolution of her poetry, from her earliest work, which was formally exact and decorous, to her later work, which became increasingly radical in both its free-verse form and feminist and political content. The entire body of her poetry is on display in this vast volume, including the National Book Award–winning Diving Into the Wreck and her prize-winning Atlas of the Difficult World. The Collected Poems of Adrienne Rich gathers and memorializes all of her boldly political, formally ambitious, thoughtful, and lucid work, the whole of which makes her one of the most prolific and influential poets of our time.

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348156
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993-07-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion.”—New York Times Book Review

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348075
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild “The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe

Necessities of Life

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necessities of Life written by Adrienne Rich and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348113
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-04-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."

What Is Found There

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393312461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book What Is Found There written by Adrienne Rich and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the proven and potential role of poetry in contemporary politics and life. Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11 "Six Meditations in Place of a Lecture."

Selected Poems: 1950-2012

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393355128
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems: 1950-2012 written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years of poems from pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual Adrienne Rich—“the Blake of American letters” (Nadine Gordimer). Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Rich’s published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known work—the clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of the 1970s, including “Diving into the Wreck,” “Planetarium,” and “The Phenomenology of Anger”—and offers the full range of her evolution as a poet. From poems leading up to her feminist breakthrough through bold later work such as “North American Time” and “Calle Visión,” Selected Poems celebrates Rich’s prophetic vision as well as the inventiveness that shaped her enduring art.