Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry /

A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist and a major intellectual voice of her generation. The Essential Essays gathers twenty- five of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 (Author)
Other Authors: Gilbert, Sandra M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The treasures that prevail / Sandra M. Gilbert
  • On lies, secrets, and silence: selected prose 1966-1978. When we dead awaken: writing as revision ; Jane Eyre: temptations of a motherless woman ; Vesuvius at home: the power of Emily Dickinson
  • Uncollected. Poetry and experience: statement at a poetry reading ; Caryatid: a column
  • Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution (1976). Foreword ; Anger and tenderness ; Motherhood and daughterhood
  • Blood, bread, and poetry: selected prose 1979-1985. What does a woman need to know?
  • Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian experience ; Split at the root: an essay on Jewish identity ; The eye of the outsider: Elizabeth Bishop's complete poems, 1927-1979 ; Blood, bread, and poetry: the location of the poet
  • What is found there: notebooks on poetry and politics (1993, 2003). Woman and bird ; Voices from the air ; The distance between language and violence ; Not how to write poetry, but wherefore ; "Rotted names" ; A poet's education ; Tourism and promised lands ; Six meditations in place of a lecture
  • Arts of the possible (2001). Muriel Rukeyser: her vision ; Why I refused the National Medal for the Arts ; Arts of the possible
  • A human eye (2009). Permeable membrane ; Poetry and the forgotten future.