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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 experienceas a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother...

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Across more than three decades Adrienne Richs essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and trans...

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Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems fro...

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The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a womans heart and mind in language for everybodylanguage whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than t...

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Konsten är värdelös om den bara pryder middagsbordet hos den makt som håller den gisslan.» Med de orden tackade Adrienne Rich nej till ett pris från Clinton-administrationen 1997. Hennes författarskap, laddat med stor litterär såväl som politisk s...

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First published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem.

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The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation. Miss Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labo...

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The young New York poet confronts the reality of life in this collection of nineteen works.

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In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("Not of course he...

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In Later Poems: Selected and New 19712012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together a remarkable body of work. Included are Adrienne Richs own selections ...

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In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Adrienne Richs evolution and accomplishment. Accompanying this is the latest selection of study on her life and work.

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Adrienne Rich whose poetry is distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity (The New York Times) was the singular voice of her generation. She brought discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of ...

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For thirty years, Rich's poetry has revealed the individual personal life-sexualities, loves, damages, struggles-as inseparable from a wider social condition, a world with others, in which the empowering of the disempowered is increasingly the sou...

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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.

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This is a reissue in a new format of a book of verse by Adrienne Rich, whose Collected Early Poems 1950-1970 was chosen as one of the Top Twenty titles for the Feminist Book Festival, Britain's annual celebration of the best of women's writing.

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The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "ContradictionsTracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to...

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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.

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Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9...

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At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and ero...

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From their first publication, when Rich was twenty-one, in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, the successive volumes of her poetry have both charted the growth of her own mind and vision and mirrored our tempestuous, unsettled age. Her unm...

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A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to exten...

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"Look: with all my fear I'm here with you, trying what it means, to stand fast; what it means to move." In these astonishing new poems, Adrienne Rich dares to look and to extend her poetic language as witness to the treasuresthe mid...

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These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society&...

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In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the pe...

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The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).

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In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("Not of cour...

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A new volume from Adrienne Rich, "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth" is one of her most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme", in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel&...

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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 shes racked up. . . . The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some...

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"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.

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Adrienne Richs Later Poems Selected and New displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After her death Rich left a manuscript that speaks for her concern with a poetics of relation alon...

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