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Adrienne Rich
Rich, Adrienne (Cecile)
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Rich, Adrienne [Cecile] (1929–), Baltimore‐born poet, whose first volume,
A Change of World (1951), was published in the Yale Series of Younger Poets the year she graduated from Radcliffe. Succeeding collections were
The Diamond Cutters (1955),
Snapshots of a Daughter‐in‐Law (1963),
Necessities of Life (1966),
Selected Poems (1967),
Leaflets (1969),
The Will To Change (1971),
Diving into the Wreck (1973, National Book Award),
Poems Selected and New (1975),
The Dream of a Common Language (1978),
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981),
The Fact of a Doorframe (1984),
Your Native Land, Your Life (1986), and
Time's Power (1989), further poems all displaying her commitment to radical politics and to women's causes.
Dark Fields of the Republic (1995) collected poems from 1991 to 1995,
Midnight Salvage (1999) collected poems from 1995 to 1998, and
Fox (2001) collected poems from 1998 to 2000. In 2003 Rich was awarded the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry from Yale University.
Of Woman Born (1976) is a study of motherhood as a social institution.
Blood, Bread, and Poetry (1987), in the foreword to which she identifies herself as a radical feminist and lesbian, collects her prose since 1979.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (1995) collected her prose from 1966 to 1978.
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (1993) remarks upon the work of mainly young, mainly female poets, but also elevates
Muriel Rukeyser to the rank of Emily Dickinson.
Arts of the Possible (2001) collects essays and interviews.
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Adrienne Rich. Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...95. ISBN 0-393-05045-9 ADRIENNE RICH, author of sixteen volumes of...raging within the passionate mind of Adrienne Rich, educated in the traditions...adjectives affixed to her name: lesbian Adrienne Rich, Marxist Adrienne Rich...
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ACCLAIMED POET ADRIENNE RICH TO APPEAR AT UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FUNDRAISER
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...World-renowned poet and activist Adrienne Rich will be the honored guest and read...for more than fifty years, Adrienne Rich's eloquent and visionary...Poets Award at the age of 21, Adrienne Rich continues to exceed her own...
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She knew me before I knew myself Adrienne Rich is making a rare appearance in the UK this week. The novelist Kirsty Gunn explains her passion for a poet who is spookily prescient and wise
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...What a treat: the American poet Adrienne Rich is making a rare appearance in...ve come to inhabit the world Adrienne Rich was writing about. The world...when I came back to the poems of Adrienne Rich. It was two months after...
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POLITICS AND THE POET; Adrienne Rich Adds an Agenda to Her Art, and Makes No Apologies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/8/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...lectern seem to require an act of physical will. But then Adrienne Rich is in place. A small reading light warms her face...body into something forceful, defiant, unyielding. Adrienne Rich is one of the nation's leading poets. She has received...
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Adrienne Rich to Read at Wallace Stevens Poetry Program.
PR Newswire; 3/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...Internationally acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich will read at the 40th Anniversary...April 23. On Tuesday, April 22, Rich and University of Connecticut student...politics intersect in our lives, Adrienne Rich has been and continues to be...
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Poet Adrienne Rich refuses to accept the National Medal for the Arts.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/11/1997; ; 700+ words
; SANTA CRUZ, Calif. _ Poet Adrienne Rich has won nearly every major American...receive the honor from the president, Rich, 68, of Santa Cruz said in an interview...criticism of social inequalities, Rich dashed off a letter refusing the medal...
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Mapping After the Holocaust: The "Atlases" of Adrienne Rich and Gerhard Richter.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; In their representations of the Holocaust, Adrienne Rich and Gerhard Richter conjoin various artistic media to...between visual and written genres. The American poet Adrienne Rich, in her 1991 volume An Atlas of the Difficult World...
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Arts of the possible by Adrienne Rich.
Magazine article from: off our backs; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...amp; Co., 2001) Why did Adrienne Rich develop an interest in the philosophy...has been self-absorbed, the rich grown richer, the poor have grown more desperate...undermined for many, she observes. Rich began to read Marx around 1980...
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Adrienne Rich: 'I happen to think poetry makes a huge difference.' (Interview)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Adrienne Rich is one of the leading American poets of...history." It is this mission that sets Rich apart, for she has forsaken the easy path...under house arrest." What do you mean? Adrienne Rich: When you think about almost any...
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Adrienne Rich sees today as best time for poetry. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/24/1993; ; 700+ words
; Adrienne Rich's lucid vision and impassioned...marvelous time for poetry,'' says Rich. ``This is, it seems to me, the richest, most diverse poetic period that...workshops in prisons,'' says Rich from the New York stop of a 12...
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Adrienne Rich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich (born 1929) perhaps more than any other contemporary poet crystallized...professor of medicine, and Helen, a trained composer and pianist, Adrienne Rich described her early upbringing as "white and middle-class...
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Rich, Adrienne (Cecille)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Rich, Adrienne (Cecille) (1929– ...Snapshot of a Daughter in Law (1956). Rich's subsequent volumes keep pace with her...presents much of her most achieved work. Rich's essays, particularly Compulsory Heterosexuality...
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Rich, Adrienne (Cecile)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Rich, Adrienne [Cecile] (1929–), Baltimore‐born poet, whose...to 1998, and Fox (2001) collected poems from 1998 to 2000. In 2003 Rich was awarded the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry from Yale University...
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misogyny
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...men's sexual violence towards women, while Susan Griffin suggested connections between militarism and misogyny. Adrienne Rich defined misogyny as institutionalized, organized, normalized hostility and violence against women. Feminist psychoanalysts...
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feminism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Betty Friedan; Sexual Politics (1969) by the US writer Kate Millett; The Female Eunuch (1970) by Germaine Greer; Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born (1977); and Gyn/Ecology (1979) by Mary Daly. In particular, the later 1960s saw the advent...
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