Essential Essays(1st Edition) Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by AdrienneRich, Sandra M. Gilbert Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35513-0, ISBN: 0-393-35513-6
"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 ..."
Of Woman Born(10th Edition) Motherhood As Experience and Institution, 10th Anniversary Edition by Adrienne Cecile Rich Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 1987 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30386-5, ISBN: 0-393-30386-1
Blood, Bread, and Poetry(1st Edition) Selected Prose 1979-1985 by AdrienneRich Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1986 by W.W. Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30397-1, ISBN: 0-393-30397-7
"Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich explores in this collection the intricacies of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a U.S. citizen, both at this time of her life and through the lens of her past."
"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 everyth ..."
Collected Poems 1950-2012 by AdrienneRich 960 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28512-3, ISBN: 0-393-28512-X
"Ghazals (Homage to Ghalib) This poem began to be written after I read Aijaz
Ahmad's literal English versions of the Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869).
While the structure and metrics of the classical ghazal form used by Ghalib are
much stricter than mine, I adhered to his use of a minimum five couplets to a
ghazal, each couplet being autonomous and independent of the others. The
continuity and unity flow from the associations ..."
"Twentyone Love Poems was first published in a limited edition, designed and
handprinted by Bonnie Carpenter at Effie's Press, ... For information about
permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W.
Norton ..."
Diving into the Wreck Poems 1971-1972 by AdrienneRich 80 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34575-9, ISBN: 0-393-34575-0
"ALSO BY ADRIENNE RICH Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971–2012
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007–2010 A Human ... Poems 2000–2004
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950–2001 Fox: Poems 1998–2000 Arts of the
Possible: Essays and Conversations Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995–1998 Dark
Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991–1995 Collected Early Poems 1950–1970
What Is ..."
The Fact of a Doorframe(Reprint) Poems Selected and New 1950-1984 by Adrienne Cecile Rich Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 1994 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31075-7, ISBN: 0-393-31075-2
Poetry and Commitment by AdrienneRich 64 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07972-2, ISBN: 0-393-07972-4
"Copyright (c) 1992 by Alan Riach and Michael Grieve. Reprinted by permission
of New Directions Publishing Corp. Excerpt from “Romiosini” by Yannis Ritsos,
translated by Kimon Friar, from Selected Poems 1938–1988, edited by Kimon
Friar and Kostas Myrsiades. Copyright (c) 1989 by BOA Editions, Ltd. Reprinted
with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltc., www .boaeditions.org. Excerpt from “
Searching the Land” by Rami Saari, translated by ..."
"The 14-year-old Border Voices project operates on the theory that a total immersion in the art of poetry via intensive workshops and an annual Poetry Fair will result in increased verbal skills and dramatically increased scores on standardized tests for K-12 students. The project also believes that these positive effects will be enhanced when students receive public recognition on TV, in books, and in the local newspaper, and when they ..."
Collected Early Poems 1950-1970 by AdrienneRich 464 Pages, Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34805-7, ISBN: 0-393-34805-9
"She more recently wrote of her observations in Gorillas in the Mist (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1983). Leaflets, 2. “The love of a fellowcreature in all its fullness
consists simply in the ability to say to him: 'What are you going through?'” (
Simone Weil, Waiting for God). Ghazals (Homage to Ghalib). This poem began to
be written after I read Aijaz Ahmed's literal English versions of the Urdu poetry of
Mirza Ghalib (1797—1869). Whi ..."
Dark Fields of the Republic Poems 1991-1995 by AdrienneRich 96 Pages, Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34806-4, ISBN: 0-393-34806-7
"While reading these letters, I had been reflecting on concepts of “guilt” and “
innocence” among artists and intellectuals like myself in the United States. The
poems owe much also to the continuing pressure of events. LATE GHAZAL Page
43: See “Ghazals (Homage to Ghalib)” and “The Blue Ghazals,” in Adrienne Rich,
Collected Early Poems: 1950–1970 (New York: Norton, 1993), pp. 339– 355, 368
–372. See also Aijaz Ahmad, ed., Ghazals of G ..."
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence Selected Prose 1966-1978 by AdrienneRich 320 Pages, Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34811-8, ISBN: 0-393-34811-3
"Long before Davis, in the 1930s, Otto Rank was writing that Jewish “monotheism
appears as the result of a long struggle against foreign gods who still betrayed
the earmarks of an earlier mothergoddess”;5 and that “the Torah which guided
the nomadic Jews through the desert represented an original female symbol, a
relic of the great Asiatic MotherGoddess”6 Theodor Reik, in his Pagan Rites in
Judaism (1964), remarks of the Torah thaf' ..."
"“This absolutely exquisite selection of a major poet’s best poetry is a tribute to both her and the editors as well as a deep service to literate humanity.” ―ALBERT WACHTEL, Pitzer College “I do use your edition of Rich each time I teach my women writers course. It’s essential!” ―JOELLEN DELUCIA, Central Michigan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: • Generous selections of poetry and prose from the entire oeuvre of one of ..."
The Will to Change Poems 1968-1970 by AdrienneRich 67 Pages, Published 1971 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34816-3, ISBN: 0-393-34816-4
""The Will to Change is an extraordinary book of poems."
Essential Essays Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by AdrienneRich 352 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35514-7, ISBN: 0-393-35514-4
"She notes that “there is one taboo that has withstood all the recent efforts at
demystification: the idealization of mother ... (The Drama of the Gifted Child: How
Narcissistic Parents Form and Deform the Emotional Lives of Their Talented
Children ..."
Selected Poems 1950-2012 by AdrienneRich 496 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35512-3, ISBN: 0-393-35512-8
"This evening let's “friendship is not a tragedy”: See June Jordan, “Civil Wars” (
1980), in Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (New York: Basic
Books, 2002), p. 267. ... Hubble Photographs: After Sappho For Sappho, see
Greek Lyric, I: Sappho, Alcaeus, trans. David A. Campbell, Loeb Classical Library
142 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982–), fragment 16, pp. 66–
67: ..."
A Change of World Poems by AdrienneRich 96 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35258-0, ISBN: 0-393-35258-7
"Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of a poet whose work has been crucial to discussions of gender, race, and class, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society."
"In Her Own Accord, contemporary American women explore the unique and important ways in which gender informs their lives. The twenty-seven selections in this exciting new collection explore issues of identity, family, relationships, work, and politics."