Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-01-17

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0393075281

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“Rich’s poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.”—Booklist “Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she’s racked up. . . . The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material.”—Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chronicle


Later Poems

Later Poems

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0393089568

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Presents a selection of poetry that draws from twelve volumes of the late author's published work as well as a manuscript posthumously left behind.


Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 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.


The Fact of a Doorframe

The Fact of a Doorframe

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 9780393310757

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Poems deal with nature, art, childhood, personal relationships, loneliness, illness, sexuality, memories, and death.


Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0393079678

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Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.


Out of Time

Out of Time

Author: Lynne Segal

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1781682992

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A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. How old am I? Don’t ask, don’t tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Out of Time looks at many of the issues facing the aged—the war of the generations and baby-boomer bashing, the politics of desire, the diminished situation of the older woman, the space on the left for the presence and resistance of the old, the problems of dealing with loss and mortality, and how to find victory in survival.


Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

Author: Karen F. Stein

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9463511679

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In her six-decade long writing career Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) addressed, with sagacity and probing honesty, most of the significant issues of her lifetime. A poet of finely tuned craft, she won numerous prizes, awards, and honorary degrees, and famously rejected the prestigious National Medal for the Arts in 1997. She wrote twenty-five volumes of poetry and seven non-fiction books as she combined the roles of poet, scholar, theorist, and activist. Rich wrote passionately and powerfully about major 20th and early 21st century concerns such as feminism, racism, sexism, the Vietnam War, Marxism, militarism, the growing income disparities in the U.S., and other social issues. Her works ask important questions about how we should act, and what we should believe. They imagine new ways to deal with the social and political challenges of the twentieth century. Setting her work in the context of her life and American politics and culture during her lifetime, this book explores Rich’s poetic and personal journey from conservative, dutiful follower of cultural and poetic traditions to challenging questioner and critic, from passivity and powerlessness to activist, theorist, and acclaimed “poet of the oppositional imagination.”


Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968

Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968

Author: Adrienne Rich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1969-03-17

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 0393348083

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Leaflets is Adrienne Rich's fifth book of poems. It contains twenty-eight new poems, five adaptations of Dutch, Yiddish, and Russian poets, and a sequence of seventeen poems loosely based on the ghazal, a common form in Middle Eastern poetic tradition; these ghazals comprise a kind of notebook of a month in the summer of 1968. The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation. Miss Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it—that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover—literally—this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action."


The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

Author: Mark Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1107123828

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This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.