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.

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 9780393342789
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
“Rich’s poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.”—Booklist “Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she’s racked up. . . . The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material.”—Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chronicle

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

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345742
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348040
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art. Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description

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.

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345750
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81

Book Description
In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim—to discover—what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.