What Is Found There Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition) by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31246-1, ISBN: 0-393-31246-1
"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.""
""The risk this book quietly takes, and impressively fulfills, is no less than to get life said.... Newly freed from the metrical conventions of her earlier books, Adrienne Rich has lost none of her perfect pitch for the tones of language itself." --Philip Booth, The Christian Science MonitorFirst published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem."
Arts of the Possible(Updated) Essays and Conversations by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32312-2, ISBN: 0-393-32312-9
""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 ..."
Collected Early Poems(1st Edition) 1950-1970 by AdrienneCecileRich Hardcover, 458 Pages, Published 1993 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-03418-9, ISBN: 0-393-03418-6
"National Book Award finalist Adrienne Rich (An Atlas of the Difficult World) is unequaled among living poets for her success in reclaiming serious poetry from scholars and returning it to the lives of general readers. Collected here for the first time are more than 200 poems: all those in her first six books plus a dozen others."
What Is Found There(1st Edition) Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by AdrienneCecileRich Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1993 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-03565-0, ISBN: 0-393-03565-4
"The "impulse to enter, with other humans, through language, into the order and disorder of the world, is poetic at its root as surely as it is political at its root, " writes Adrienne Rich at the beginning of her powerful new prose work. What Is Found There is Rich's response to her impulse as a poet to know poetry fully, to plumb and scale and inhabit it; it is also, profoundly, Rich's attempt to bring poetry into the lives of many kin ..."
Blood, Bread, and Poetry(Reprint) Selected Prose 1979-1985 (Norton Paperback) by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31162-4, ISBN: 0-393-31162-7
"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 ..."
Midnight Salvage(1st Edition) Poems 1995-1998 by AdrienneCecileRich, Adreinne Rich Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1999 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04682-3, ISBN: 0-393-04682-6
"Adrienne Rich's work has long challenged social plausibilities built on violence and demoralizing power. In Midnight Salvage, she continues her explorations at the end of the century, trying, as she has said, "to face the terrible with hope, in language as complex as necessary, as communicative as possible - a poetics which can work as antidote to complacency, self-involvement, and despair. I have wanted to assume a theater of voices ra ..."
"The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, ..."
"“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"
Women and Honor(1st Edition) Some Notes on Lying by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, Published 1977 by Motherroot Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-934238-03-8, ISBN: 0-934238-03-0
Of Woman Born(1st Edition) Motherhood as Experience and Institution by AdrienneCecileRich Hardcover, 318 Pages, Published 1976 by Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08750-5, ISBN: 0-393-08750-6
"Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and somewhat dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 318 pages; Description: 318 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Motherhood. Mother and child. Feminism. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index."
Poems Selected and New, 1950-1974 by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1975 by W.W. Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04395-2, ISBN: 0-393-04395-9
"Book by Rich Adrienne"
Poems(1st Edition) selected and new, 1950-1974 by AdrienneCecileRich Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1974 by Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04392-1, ISBN: 0-393-04392-4
"Bound in the publisher's original black cloth covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Price clipped dust jacket is worn, particularly at the head and heel, and with a closed tear to one corner."
""Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but fully earned."--Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review"
"“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"
The Will to Change Poems 1968-1970 (Paperback) by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 1 Pages, Published 2013 by W W Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04361-7, ISBN: 0-393-04361-4
"PIANO ME ́ LANCOLIQUE (extraits) par Élise Turcotte N'emporte rien avec toi.
Essayons de croire qu'il n'y a rien dans mes poumons. Qu'aucune maladie ne
noircit tes yeux. Que je t'écris de la mangrove pour te parler des palétuviers qui
sont ..."
Collected Early Poems(Reprint) 1950-1970 by AdrienneCecileRich Library, Published 2008 by Paw Prints 2008-06-26 ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-0943-2, ISBN: 1-4395-0943-3
"Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth is one of Adrienne Rich's most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme," in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel," in the voices from past and present in "Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send," in the dystopic scenes and intimate encounters of "Draft # 2006," in the mysterious negotiations of the title poem, the tempos ..."
Arts of the Possible(1st Edition) Essays and Conversations by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05045-5, ISBN: 0-393-05045-9
"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 ..."