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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... past growing up white in the South , the older poet defines herself as one " trying as part of her resistance , to clean up her act " ( ARP 239 ) . The colloquial phrase " clean up her act " and level of daring self - revela- tion ...
... past , history redolent with tales . Equating travel- ing old roads into memories with reading and remembering well - loved tales , the speaker explores how one sometimes remembers the para- graphs , phrasings , and words of a story ...
... past ( F 42 ) . " This will never happen again " —what happened here will never happen again proclaims the poem of the century just past and earthquakes past . The turn of the millennium is a kind of watershed in history : at the end 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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