Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988

Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1989-05-17

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 039334813X

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Time's Power is a new book by a major American poet, and a landmark in a distinguished ongoing career. 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 source of human hope. Now her mature vision engages with the power of time itself: memory and its contradictions, the ebb and flow between parents and children, the deaths we all face sooner or later, the meaning of human responsibility in all this. "Letters in the Family," for example, is written in the voices of three women—from the Spanish Civil War, from a Jewish rescue mission behind Nazi lines, and from present-day Southern Africa. Time's Power shows Rich writing with unprecedented range, complexity, and authority.


An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1991-12-17

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0393345742

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 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.


Fashioning the Female Subject

Fashioning the Female Subject

Author: Sabine Sielke

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780472107889

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Exploring the interrelatedness of the poetry of three American women writers


The Dream and the Dialogue

The Dream and the Dialogue

Author: Alice Templeton

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780870498596

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"Adrienne Rich's poetry has long engaged critics in questions about the nature of poetic art, the character of poetic tradition, and the value of poetry as a political and cultural activity. At the same time, it has attracted many general readers, largely because it expresses the personal, social, and intellectual crises faced by feminists during the last thirty years." "In this study, Alice Templeton looks at the ways in which feminist thinking has influenced Rich's poetics while, simultaneously, her poetic practice has shaped her feminist conceptions. Templeton begins by exploring the tensions between epic, eulogistic, and lyric claims made in the poems collected in Diving into the Wreck (1973). She then examines the strategies Rich uses in subsequent collections to test and refine her feminist thinking. Templeton focuses, in particular, on the "dialogic moments" of cultural participation that Rich's poetry provides for the poet and the reader. These "moments," Templeton argues, can dispel myths of social determinism even as they implicate readers in an ethically charged communal bond." "By demonstrating the contributions that Rich has made both to feminist thinking and to our ways of reading poetic tradition, The Dream and the Dialogue treats Rich as a poet of ideas and places her work solidly in the context of contemporary literary theory."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing

Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing

Author: Gabriele Griffin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1134722095

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A lively and accessible guide to lesbian and gay literary culture. Featuring authors of works with lesbian or gay content as well as known lesbian and gay writers, it offers an invaluable guide to a rich and varied literary culture.


The Creative Crone

The Creative Crone

Author: Sylvia Henneberg

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 082621861X

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"Henneberg shows how these writers offer radically different but richly complementary strategies for breaking the silence surrounding age. Rich provides an approach to aging so strongly intertwined with other political issues that its complexity may keep us from immediately identifying age as one of her chief concerns. On the other hand, Sarton's direct treatment of aging sensitizes us to its importance and helps us see its significance in such writings as Rich's. Meanwhile, Rich's efforts to politicize age create stimulating contexts for Sarton's work. Henneberg explores elements of these writers' individual poems that develop themes of aging, including imagery and symbol, the construction of a persona, and the uses of rhythms to reinforce the themes. She also includes analyses of their fiction and nonfiction works and draws ideas from age studies by scholars such as Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Kathleen Woodward, and Thomas Cole."--From publisher description.


Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

Author: Liz Yorke

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997-12-12

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 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.


Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

Author: Amy Sickels

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1438147368

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Contains a biography of American poet Adrienne Rich, and includes information on her academic life, her influences, how she disappeared from the world of poetry, and her role as a feminist and activist. Includes chronology and bibliography.


A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008

A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-06-21

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0393071391

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“Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters.”—Nadine Gordimer Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich’s 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 transformations. Beyond literary theories, she explores from many angles how the arts of language have acted on and been shaped by their creators’ worlds.