"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 ..."
"For HarukoLittle moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing light into a blurred excitementThen she opens all of one eye as accurate as longing as two hands beholden to the hunger of green leavesand rinsing them back into regular breath she who sees she frees each of these beggarly events cleansing them of dust and other deathPoem about Process And Progress For HarukoHey Baby you betta hurry it up! ..."
"“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 ..."
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
Essential Essays(1st Edition) Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by AdrienneCecileRich, Sandra M. Gilbert Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-65236-9, ISBN: 0-393-65236-X
"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 ..."
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
Fox(Reprint) Poems 1998-2000 (Norton Paperback) by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32377-1, ISBN: 0-393-32377-3
""A challenging collection that should more than satisfy [Rich's] large and loyal following."―Washington Post Book World In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues taking the temperature ..."
Midnight Salvage(Updated) Poems 1995-1998 by AdrienneCecileRich, AdrienneRice Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31984-2, ISBN: 0-393-31984-9
"W.H. Auden chose Adrienne Rich for the Yale Younger Poet series when she was a mere 21. In Midnight Salvage, a half century later, in an act part homage, part defiance, Rich challenges the reader to reconsider whether poetry matters: if a woman as vivid as any artist can fling any day herself from the 14th floor would it relieve you to decide Poetry doesn't make this happen? As we've come to expect from a writer who insists that "all ..."
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 Fact of a Doorframe(Reprint) Poems Selected and New 1950-1984 by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 1994 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31075-7, ISBN: 0-393-31075-2
"RO60078979. THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME, POEMS SELECTED AND NEW, 1950-1984. 1994. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 341 pages. Quelques annotations au crayon dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon"
""Her poems are a tribute to strength in the midst of terrible alienation."--"Publishers Weekly" "An important contemporary look at history through poetry."--"Library Journal""What Klepfisz is: a survivor who studies survival, who lays out the cost of surviving in her poems.... She operates from a stark but deep compassion."--"American Book Review""
"“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"
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."
" Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne Bradstreet sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630, shortly after her marriage at sixteen to Simon Bradstreet. For the next forty years ..."
""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."
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."
German in 32 Lessons (Gimmick Series) by AdrienneCecileRich Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 1992 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04533-8, ISBN: 0-393-04533-1
"At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity.""