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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... death - either the soul's death in sin or real death in childbirth . As a girl , she had been for several years an Episcopalian , but her parents had sent her to the church for upward mobility , not for spiritual reasons . She attended ...
... death . ' " Hence the stated topic - just one topic - of Necessities of Life is death , the death of love or illusion , and the death of the old self or selves : I interpret this as death as it is commonly understood , death to ...
... death in Cocteau's film The Death of Orpheus ( 1950 ) , a film that had a pro- found impact on the avant - garde of the 1950s . The terror Death's entourage inspires can be likened to the terror felt in Western Europe a decade earlier ...
Contents
Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft | 9 |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Copyright | |
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