Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995

Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995
Title Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Rich
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 90
Release 1995-09-17
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0393348067

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"When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its direction" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both. 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 extend the poet's reach of witness and power of connection--and then invites the reader to participate.

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974
Title Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Rich
Publisher W. W. Norton
Pages 284
Release 1974
Genre American poetry
ISBN

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Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998

Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
Title Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Rich
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 82
Release 1999-09-17
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0393348091

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"An impressive new volume. . . . Rich's admirers will recognize the complex symbiosis between the activist and the maker of new language, each propelling, describing, provoking the other's words."—Publishers Weekly "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 treasures—the midnight salvage—we rescue from fear and fragmentation. Rich's work has long challenged social plausibilities built on violence and demoralizing power. In Midnight Salvage, she continues her explorations at the end of the century, trying, as she has said, "to face the terrible with hope, in language as complex as necessary, as communicative as possible—a poetics which can work as antidote to complacency, self-involvement, and despair. I have wanted to assume a theater of voices rather than the restricted I. To write for both readers I know exist and those I can only imagine, finding their own salvaged beauty as I have found mine." "In her vision of warning and her celebration of life, Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters."—Nadine Gordimer

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
Title On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Rich
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 251
Release 1995-04-17
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0393348113

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In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. 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 erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Title Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Rich
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 400
Release 2021-04-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 039386734X

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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.

Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006

Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
Title Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Rich
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 109
Release 2009-04-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0393334783

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"Rich's lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory." --San Francisco Chronicle

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich
Title Adrienne Rich PDF eBook
Author Liz Yorke
Publisher SAGE
Pages 178
Release 1997-12-12
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9781446240458

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Adrienne Rich is a major American poet who continues to be inspired by the political ideas and activism of various liberation movements of the twentieth century. Whether expressed in poetry or in prose, her ideas have been much debated, particularly within second wave feminism. This unique introduction focuses on Rich's prose work but also makes reference to the poetry where her political ideas and urgencies often find their first expression. Demonstrating the compexity and subtlety of her contribution to feminism, the book outlines her wide-ranging thoughts on, for example, motherhood, heterosexuality, lesbian and Jewish identity, and issues of racial and sexual otherness. Liz Yorke conveys the range and importance of Rich's achievements and highlights the major themes which are interwoven in her work.