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“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.
Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers’ notions of what defines erotic poetry.
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.
Dedication - Poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.
The young New York poet confronts the reality of life in this collection of nineteen works. "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...
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"She taught me that the lives of women existed in the future and that language was the pathway to that future."
Rich's “Twenty-One Love Poems,” written between 1974 and 1976, is a moving account of the ups and downs of a romantic relationship. In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.
In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.
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North American Time - A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.
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."
The Art of Translation - Poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.
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