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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... seems to have been written by an older person ; this speaker seems to have witnessed the funerals of many of her friends and family ; this is a poem filled with a tone of immi- nent doom ( ARP 283 ) . The subject positions here are ...
... seems to become her mother and disturbs her reveries ( N 17 ) , says the subject to her husband . This can- did speaker ridicules the strangeness of marriage's bedfellows : " Miscar- ried " information - misunderstandings and suspicions ...
... seem to take precedence over the poetry . Writing about six years after the Kent State University killing of ... seems to intuit the events of 9/11/01 in her poetry of the early 1990s . IN - LAWS AND OUTLAWS : " MOTHER - IN - LAW ...
Contents
Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft | 9 |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Copyright | |
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