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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... says that the reader is not to think that she is trying to state a case or construct a scenery1 in her poetry . Instead she says she has tried to hear the country's public voice and to record in poetry and prose what is real in our ...
... says elegantly and self- deprecatingly in these lines that men praise women for all the wrong rea- sons , celebrating them chiefly for passivity or indolence rather than for any positive accomplishments ( S 24 ) . Men in power value ...
... says that it is defensive and does not accord the same freedom to others as it arrogates to itself . While I maintain , along with Cynthia Hogue ( " Adrienne Rich's Political Ecstatic Subject , " Women's Studies 27.4 [ June 1998 ] : 413 ...
Contents
Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft | 9 |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Copyright | |
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