Adrienne Rich

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Standard Name: Rich, Adrienne
Birth Name: Adrienne Cecile Rich
Married Name: Adrienne Cecile Conrad
AR ranks as one of the most influential figures in the twentieth-century feminist movement, and as one of the most influential contemporary American poets (though her political activism impeded the usual workings of the canonisation process, producing a counter-flow against the voices raised in praise of her work). Like other great poets she has produced a body of theorising and critical prose that goes hand-in-hand with her poetry, and that has been almost equally clarifying and liberating for women seeking to understand the dynamics of history.
Black and white head-shot of Adrienne Rich. She has jaw-length hair with short bangs, and she wears a collared shirt.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Ruth Padel
RP takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,...
Textual Features Fleur Adcock
Adcock's introduction declines to illustrate a thesis or put forward a particular tradition: women poets, she says, have participated in all the complex poetic currents of the twentieth century. What they have in common is...
Textual Production Tillie Olsen
The four successive Tillie Olsen's Reading Lists of then almost unknown women writers, published by the Feminist Press in their Spectrum: Women's Studies Newsletter in 1972-3, were, according to Adrienne Rich , the beginning of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Atwood
These fifty selected essays and reviews include discussions of Adrienne Rich , Northrop Frye and Anne Sexton .
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carol Rumens
She discusses the poetry of Philip Larkin , Derek Mahon , and a range of women poets (including Adrienne Rich , Marilyn Hacker , and Ruth Padel ), especially their forms, music, and metres.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carol Rumens
According to a reviewer, CR rings the changes on poetic form: lyric, sonnet, pantoume (a stanza form with lines repeated in different places according to a fixed pattern), sestina (six six-line stanzas and a three-line...

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Texts

Rich, Adrienne. The Fact of a Doorframe. Norton, 1984.
Rich, Adrienne. The School Among the Ruins. Norton, 2004.
Rich, Adrienne. The Will to Change. Norton, 1971.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
Rich, Adrienne. Time’s Power. Norton, 1989.
Rich, Adrienne. Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems, 2007-2010. Norton, 2011.
Rich, Adrienne. Twenty-One Love Poems. Effie’s Press, 1977.
Rich, Adrienne. What is Found There. Norton, 1993.
Rich, Adrienne. Your Native Land, Your Life. Norton, 1986.