Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393075281
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Relationships—partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal—are the deep fabric of this forceful work. In the intimate address of "Axel Avákar," the black humor of "Quarto," and the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation," compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, "I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book." from "Ballade of the Poverties" There's the poverty of wages wired for the funeral you Can't get to the poverty of bodies lying unburied There's the poverty of labor offered silently on the curb The poverty of yard sale scrapings spread And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on street Prince let me tell you who will never learn through words There are poverties and there are poverties.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039386734X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.

Later Poems

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Book Description
Presents a selection of poetry that draws from twelve volumes of the late author's published work as well as a manuscript posthumously left behind.

The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348164
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
"The Will to Change is an extraordinary book of poems...It has the urgency of a prisoner's journal: patient, laconic, eloquent, as if determined thoughts were set down in stolen moments." —David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review "The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...It includes moments when poverty and heroism explode grammer with their own dignified unsyntactical demands...The poems are about departures, about the pain of breaking away from lovers and from an old sense of self. They discover the point where loneliness and politics touch, where the exercise of the radical courage takes its inevitable toll."—David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393079678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.

The Fact of a Doorframe

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393310757
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Poems deal with nature, art, childhood, personal relationships, loneliness, illness, sexuality, memories, and death.

American Poetry since 1945

Author: Eleanor Spencer-Regan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137324473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
This book features a collection of essays on some of the key poets of post-war America, written by leading scholars in the field. All the essays have been newly commissioned to take account of the diverse movements in American poetry since 1945, and also to reflect, retrospectively, on some of the major talents that have shaped its development. In the aftermath of the Second World War, American poets took stock of their own tumultuous past but faced the future with radically new artistic ideals and commitments. More than ever before, American poetry spoke with its own distinctive accents and declared its own dreams and desires. This is the era of confessionalism, beat poetry, protest poetry, and avant-garde postmodernism. This book explores the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, and Sylvia Plath, as well as contemporary African American poets and new poetic voices emerging in the 21st century. This New Casebook introduces the major American poets of the post-war generation, evaluates their achievements in the light of changing critical opinion, and offers lively, incisive readings of some of the most challenging and enthralling poetry of the modern era.

American Poetry after Modernism

Author: Albert Gelpi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic tradition was solidified in the later half the twentieth century, thus severing it from British conventions.

The Best American Poetry 2009

Author: David Wagoner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299779
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.

Out of Time

Author: Lynne Segal
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781682992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. How old am I? Don’t ask, don’t tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Out of Time looks at many of the issues facing the aged—the war of the generations and baby-boomer bashing, the politics of desire, the diminished situation of the older woman, the space on the left for the presence and resistance of the old, the problems of dealing with loss and mortality, and how to find victory in survival.