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Adrienne Rich



Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist. She is known for her truthful and often confrontational work and is recognized for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront in poetry. She was involved in anti-war, civil rights, and feminist movements, and received many awards in her lifetime, including the National Book Award and the the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award.

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An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 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 and the magic of poetry.

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Adrienne Rich
1991
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The Aesthetics of Power: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

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.

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Claire Keyes
2008
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich’s influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own―as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother―but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere.

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Adrienne Rich
1995
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966–1978

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.

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Adrienne Rich
1995
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Poetry in Person

“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’ ” Few students responded.

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Alexander Neubauer (editor)
2011
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The Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement

This feminist classic (first published in 1982) presents a chorus of voices exploring their authentic spirituality. The essays are active rather than reactive, revolutionary rather than reformist, and express a broad political awareness.

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Charlene Spretnak (editor)
1982
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Adrienne Rich: "For Ethel Rosenberg"

In this excerpt from the documentary "Unknown Secrets: Art & the Rosenberg Era" Adrienne Rich is captured reading her poem, 'For Ethel Rosenberg" at Boston's Faneuil Hall.

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Adrienne Rich
2012
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Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination

“The impulse to create begins—often terribly and fearfully—in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”

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Maria Popova
2015
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Adrienne Rich "North American Time"

North American Time - A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.

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Adrienne Rich
2013
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The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.

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Adrienne Rich
2002
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