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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... vision of the common ( wo ) man . Could Rich be seen as an American Socrates , a gadfly stinging compla- cent citizens of the Republic from time to time , challenging everyone to think harder , longer , and more creatively about ...
... vision . Now the longer cataloguing lines of her radical later poetry evoke those of William Carlos Williams ' later poetry . Here she achieves a more vision- ary , even oracular conception of the role of the poet as akin to that of ...
... Vision , a street in Santa Cruz she visits clairvoyantly in the poem . The lyric " I " is a prophet " Being lodged ... Vision " : and she adds ruefully " and every woman's . " If you took the road less traveled , Calle Vision or Vision ...
Contents
Deliberate Detachment and Conscious Craft | 9 |
Eruptions of the Female Psyche | 39 |
New Poetry Enters the World | 71 |
Copyright | |
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