Selected Poems 1950 2012

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393285123

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Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393355123

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Selected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393348057

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Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Lew Welch
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780872865792

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Ring of Bone: Collected Poems by Lew Welch Pdf

"Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings . . . jazz musical phrasings of American speech is one of Welch's clearest contributions." ? Gary Snyder Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. He disappeared in 1971, leaving a suicide note behind. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and some drawings, documenting the full sweep of his creative output from his early years until his death. First published by legendary poetry editor Donald Allen, this new edition includes photos, a biographic timeline, and a statement of poetics gleaned from Welch's own writing.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : 80 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393355116

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Selected Poems (Rich) by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.

Author : Naomi Replansky
Publisher : Black Sparrow Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781574232158

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Collected Poems by Naomi Replansky Pdf

Nominated for the National Book Award in 1952, Naomi Replansky's first book Ring Song dazzled critics with its candor and freshness of language. Here at long last is the new and collected work of a lifetime by a writer hailed as "one of the most brilliant American poets" by George Oppen. Replansky is a poet whose verse combines the compression of Emily Dickinson, the passion of Anna Akhmatova, and the music of W.H. Auden. These poems, which Marie Ponsot calls "sixty years of a free woman's song," are Replansky's hymns to the struggle for justice and equality and to the enduring beauty of life in our dangerous world.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393348040

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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art. Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393345735

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Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Rich Pdf

"Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."—Women's Review of Books These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes. The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart. This volume collects Rich's essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts. "The work is inspired and inspiring."—Alicia Ostriker "[S]o clear and clean and thorough. I learn from her again and again."—Grace Paley

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : Salmon Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015040737275

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Selected Poems, 1950-1995 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Author : Frank O'Hara
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520201663

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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara Pdf

Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.

Author : Mark Strand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036108095

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Selected Poems by Mark Strand Pdf

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393652369

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Essential Essays by Adrienne Rich Pdf

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.