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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... express his rage that his son and hers had burned a mathematics textbook on the last day of school . This act of simple defiance , possibly purely an expression of their distaste for school and mathematics , has led the father to ground ...
... express his pain's immensity except himself ( WC 37 ) . The body becomes the graphic sign of excruciating pain , the possibly fatal pain of rheumatoid arthritis . In 1976 and after , Rich will address the topics of doctors for women ...
... express in words , only in untiring action . They are swimming against the current ( here she echoes a phrase from Virginia Woolf's journals , " writing against the current " ) , since theirs is a subversive , underground movement whose ...
Contents
Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft | 9 |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Copyright | |
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