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
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...
Friends, Associates Anne Sexton
AS made many friends among her fellow poets: Kumin , Soter , William DeWitt Snodgrass , Sylvia Plath (whose death affected her deeply), George Starbuck and James Wright (who were also her lovers), and Anthony Hecht
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Stevenson
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...
Reception Alice Walker
When this volume was nominated for a National Book Award, three of the four female nominees (among eleven) agreed that they would not compete with each other, but would accept the award (if it was...
Literary responses Mary Wollstonecraft
Virginia Woolf celebrated Wollstonecraft's immortality in 1929; Marjorie Bowen wrote of her critically in 1937 yet entitled her work This Shining Woman. The future anthropologist Ruth Benedict , with her own career yet to...

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Texts

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.