Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995

Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : 9780393348064
ISBN-13 : 0393348067
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Synopsis Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by : Adrienne Rich

"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.

Dark Fields of the Republic

Dark Fields of the Republic
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:257315306
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Synopsis Dark Fields of the Republic by : Adrienne Cecile Rich

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 66
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ISBN-10 : 9780393345742
ISBN-13 : 0393345742
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Synopsis An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by : Adrienne Rich

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.

Understanding Adrienne Rich

Understanding Adrienne Rich
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9781611177008
ISBN-13 : 1611177006
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Adrienne Rich by : Jeannette E. Riley

The journey of an important feminist writer through poetry, prose, and politics Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. In Understanding Adrienne Rich, Jeannette E. Riley assesses the full scope of Rich's career from 1957 to her death in 2012 through a chronological exploration of her poetry and prose. Riley details the evolution of Rich's feminist poetics as she investigated issues of identity, sexuality, gender, the desire to reclaim women's history, and what she terms "the dream of a common language." Throughout the book she documents Rich's gradually developing assertion that poetry can create social change and engage people in the democratic process. Interweaving explications of Rich's poetry with analysis of her prose, Riley offers a close look at the development of the author's voice from formalist poet to feminist visionary to citizen poet.

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974
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Publisher : W. W. Norton
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106006473075
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Synopsis Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 by : Adrienne Rich

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9780393867343
ISBN-13 : 039386734X
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by : Adrienne Rich

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.

Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006

Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9780393334784
ISBN-13 : 0393334783
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 by : Adrienne Rich

"Rich's lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory." --San Francisco Chronicle

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 1446240452
ISBN-13 : 9781446240458
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Adrienne Rich by : Liz Yorke

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.

Modern Confessional Writing

Modern Confessional Writing
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9781134299775
ISBN-13 : 113429977X
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Synopsis Modern Confessional Writing by : Jo Gill

A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate and critique conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary act of confession and its assumed relationship to truth, authority and subjectivity are challenged, and in their place a range of new critical perspectives and practices are adopted. Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new theoretically-informed views on what confessional writing is, how it functions, and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these new perspectives modern confessional writing is liberated from the misconception that it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre.