Collected Poems: 1950-2012

by Adrienne Rich (Author), Claudia Rankine (Author), Claudia Rankine (Author), Adrienne Rich (Author)

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2018
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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 poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.

This volume traces the evolution of Rich's poetry, from her earliest, formally exact and decorous work to her later poems, which became increasingly radical in both form and content. Displaying the entire body of Rich's poetry, The Collected Poems gathers and commemorates all Rich's boldly political, formally ambitious, thoughtful and lucid 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 poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.

This volume traces the evolution of Rich's poetry, from her earliest, formally exact and decorous work to her later poems, which became increasingly radical in both form and content. Displaying the entire body of Rich's poetry, The Collected Poems gathers and commemorates all Rich's boldly political, formally ambitious, thoughtful and lucid work.

$63.61

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 1216
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01 May 2018
ISBN 10: 0393285111
ISBN 13: 9780393285116

Media Reviews

Poetry, like Adrienne Rich's - in her Collected Poems... can awaken us to the kinds of deeper truths that are unsayable in prose... -- Laura Elkin, Best Books of 2016 - The Guardian
The book is a fascinating document of shifts in style, swerves in perspective that never, for all that, touch or compromise the integrity of an essential poet. -- Eavan Boland, Our Favourite Books of 2016 - The Irish Times

Author Bio

Widely read, widely anthologized, widely interviewed, and widely taught, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) was for decades among the most influential writers of the feminist movement and one of the best-known American public intellectuals. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry and more than a half-dozen of prose. Her constellation of honors includes two National Book Awards, a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, and a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. Ms. Rich's volumes of poetry include The Dream of a Common Language, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, An Atlas of the Difficult World, The School Among the Ruins, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth. Her prose includes the essay collections On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; an influential essay, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, and the nonfiction book Of Woman Born, which examines the institution of motherhood as a socio-historic construct. In 2010, she was honored with The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award.