Boyd, Melba Joyce. Discarded Legacy. Wayne State University Press, 1994.
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Textual Features
Adrienne Rich
In this volume, she says, she seeks to go deeper into the heart of the matter.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The collection's first poem, Solfeggietto, refigures the poet's early relationship with her mother, former composer and pianist Helen Rich
Timeline
2 December 1859
White American abolitionist John Brown
was hanged in Charles Town by the state of Virginia, with the approval of the federal government
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