Reading Adrienne Rich

Author : Hilary Holladay
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385541503

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The Power of Adrienne Rich by Hilary Holladay Pdf

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 Drawing on a wealth of unpublished materials, including Rich's correspondence and in-depth interviews with numerous people who knew her, Hilary Holladay digs deep into never-before-accessed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.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393075281

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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Relationships—partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal—are the deep fabric of this forceful work. In the intimate address of "Axel Avákar," the black humor of "Quarto," and the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation," compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, "I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book." from "Ballade of the Poverties" There's the poverty of wages wired for the funeral you Can't get to the poverty of bodies lying unburied There's the poverty of labor offered silently on the curb The poverty of yard sale scrapings spread And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on street Prince let me tell you who will never learn through words There are poverties and there are poverties.

Author : Jane Roberta Cooper
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472063502

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Reading Adrienne Rich by Jane Roberta Cooper Pdf

Gathering reviews and essays which examine Rich's poetry and prose, this text also looks at how critical opinion about her works has changed.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393867343

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106006473075

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Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393348071

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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

“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

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345759

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Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393348064

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Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

"When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its direction" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both. A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to extend the poet's reach of witness and power of connection--and then invites the reader to participate.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393348163

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The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

"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

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393079722

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Poetry and Commitment by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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."

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345742

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An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393239812

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Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

The final volume of poems by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice. Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet. Included are Adrienne Rich’s own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her final volume, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, along with ten powerful new poems, previously uncollected. This collection testifies to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late twentieth century, and will continue to inspire readers for years to come.

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791484135

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From Motherhood to Mothering by Andrea O'Reilly Pdf

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393312461

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What Is Found There by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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."

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015002154352

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Twenty-one Love Poems by Adrienne Rich Pdf