Background
Rich, Adrienne was born on May 16, 1929 in Baltimore. Daughter of Arnold Rice and Helen Elizabeth (Jones) Rich.
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America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the proven and potential role of poetry in contemporary politics and life. 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-9/11 "Six Meditations in Place of a Lecture."
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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.
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“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” ―Cheryl Strayed, Wild “The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody―language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”―Boston Evening Globe
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(Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich expl...)
Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich explores in this collection the intricacies of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a U.S. citizen, both at this time of her life and through the lens of her past.
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A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems. The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions―Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, erased. I believe more than ever that the search for justice and compassion is the great wellspring for poetry in our time, throughout the world, though the theme of despair has been canonized in this country. I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so."
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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."
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In this reissue of 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.
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"Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but fully earned."--Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review
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(At issue are the politics of language; the uses of schola...)
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."
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( In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches...)
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.
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( More than 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich's firs...)
More than 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich's first six books, plus a dozen others of those decades. 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 unmistakable voice, speaking even from the earliest poems with rare assurance and precision, wrestles with urgent questions while never failing to explore new poetic territory. In Collected Early Poems, readers will once again bear witness to Rich's triumphant assertion of the centrality of poetry in our intertwined personal and political lives.
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( "Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been t...)
"Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."―Women's Review of Books 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's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes. The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart. This volume collects Rich's essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts. "The work is inspired and inspiring."―Alicia Ostriker "So clear and clean and thorough. I learn from her again and again."―Grace Paley
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“We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion.”―New York Times Book Review
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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.
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In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world. "I hope never to idealize poetry―it has suffered enough from that. Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard."
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Rich, Adrienne was born on May 16, 1929 in Baltimore. Daughter of Arnold Rice and Helen Elizabeth (Jones) Rich.
AB, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1979.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1987. Doctor of Letters (honorary), College Wooster, Ohio, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), City College of New York.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1992.
Teacher workshop, YM-WHA Poetry Center, New York City, 1966-1967;
visiting lecturer, Swarthmore College, 1967-1969;
Adjunct Professor writing division, Columbia University, 1967-1969;
lecturer, City College of New York, 1968-1970;
instructor, City College of New York, 1970-1971;
assistant Professor of English, City College of New York, 1971-1972, 74-75;
Fannie Hurst visiting professor creative literature, Brandeis U., 1972-1973;
professor, English Douglass College, Rutgers University, 1976-1979;
Clark lecturer, distinguished visiting professor, Scripps College, 1983-1984;
A.D. White professor-at-large, Cornell Univercity, 1981-1987;
distinguished visiting professor, San Jose State University, 1984-1985;
Professor of English and feminist studies, Stanford University, 1986-1993. Marjorie Kovler visiting lecturer University of Chicago, 1989.
( “Certain lines had become like incantations to me, word...)
(At issue are the politics of language; the uses of schola...)
( That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet ...)
(The tenth anniversary edition of Adrienne Rich's classic ...)
( In this collection of prose writings, one of America's ...)
(Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich expl...)
( In this reissue of her seventh volume of poetry, Adrien...)
("We are in the presence here of a major American poet who...)
( “We are in the presence here of a major American poet w...)
( "When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its directi...)
( America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the p...)
( A major American poet faces her own native land, her ow...)
( In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches...)
( Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation ...)
(Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation co...)
(A selection of poems from nine of Adrienne Rich's earlier...)
( In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton...)
( More than 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich's firs...)
( "Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been t...)
(Of Woman Born : Motherhood As Experience and Institution ...)
( "Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of d...)
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(A Classic in its Field!)
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Member national advisory board Boston Women's Fund, Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa, National Writers Union. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, American Academy Arts and Letters, National Writers Union.
Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists (international association)
National Writers Union
A Jewish Voice for Peace.
Married Alfred H. Conrad (deceased 1970). Children: David, Paul, Jacob.