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The power of Adrienne Rich : a biography /

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Adrienne Rich was the female face of American poetry for decades. Her forceful, uncompromising writing has more than stood the test of time, and the life of the woman behind the words is equally impressive. Motivated by personal revelations, Rich transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-edu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holladay, Hilary (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Rich, Adrienne, > 1929-2012.
Lesbians > Biography.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Feminists > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Baby genius
  • The patriarch and the woman in the black dress
  • Kingdom of the mind
  • The girl who wrote poems
  • The making of Adrienne Rich
  • Toute la gloire
  • Cleopatra of Oxford
  • The unborn self
  • Bursting with benzedrine and emancipation
  • Pessimistic optimist
  • Like this together
  • What the autumn knew would happen
  • Brilliant, mad, human, and irreplaceable
  • A woman of the 1970s
  • The book of myths
  • In the name of all women
  • I know my power
  • Hyacinths rising like flames
  • My true university
  • Anger and tenderness
  • Words that blew our lives apart
  • Citizen poet
  • I am my art.