Adrienne Rich: The Moment of ChangeBloomsbury Academic, 2004 M05 30 - 296 pages Although best known as a poet, Adrienne Rich is a versatile critic and a gifted writer of nonfiction and critical theory. Writing in the oracular tradition of Whitman and Dickinson, she affirms the will to change as an enduring commitment in her life and poetry.One of America's most outspoken literary figures, her courage in speaking out against injustice in the United States and worldwide has earned her the kind of international political following few American poets enjoy. This book is a much-needed comprehensive study of her life and career. It covers the full progression of her poetry from the beginning through her most recent work. In doing so, it clarifies her entire poetic output and illuminates her concepts of nation, the female body, power, and women's sexuality. |
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... Rich critic , Mar- garet Dickie correctly delineated Rich's problem with her critics : Clearly in all these cases and others like them , critics find it more important to cite Rich's poem than to read it carefully because , curiously ...
... Rich's poetry constitutes an indictment of the times , specifically those power structures that limit and dehu- manize us all.23 In Rich's more recent essays she indicates that the best poetry by women or men can heal and mend those ...
... Rich's Political Ecstatic Subject , " Women's Studies 27.4 [ June 1998 ] : 413-29 ) , that Rich's poetry always stays within the realm of the lyric , Helen Vendler ( Soul Says : On Recent Poetry [ Cambridge , Mass .: Belknap Press of ...
Contents
Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft | 9 |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Copyright | |
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