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  • Collected Poems: 1950-2012

    • ASIN: B013RM25PU
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, a... [Read More]

  • Adrienne Rich (Voice of the Poet)

    • ASIN: 0553714899
    • ISBN: 0553714899
    • Brand: Brand: Random House Audio
    • Manufacturer: Random House Audio

    THE VOICE OF THE POETA remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with t... [Read More]

  • Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

    • ASIN: 0393346013
    • ISBN: 0393346013
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim―to discover―what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive v... [Read More]

  • The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

    • ASIN: 0393310337
    • ISBN: 0393310337
    • Brand: Brand: W. W. Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "Rich's poems do not demand the willing suspension of disbelief. They demand belief, and it is a measure of her success as a poet that most of the time they get it. . . . The affirmation and the occasional moments of pure joy in these poems are quiet but fully earned."--Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review

  • The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

    • ASIN: 0393323951
    • ISBN: 9780393323955
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001... [Read More]

  • Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006

    • ASIN: 0393334783
    • ISBN: 0393334783
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    “Rich’s lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory.” ―San Francisco Chronicle

  • Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems

    • ASIN: 0393310825
    • ISBN: 0393310825
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems. The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions―Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to spea... [Read More]

  • Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

    • ASIN: 0393961478
    • ISBN: 0393961478
    • Brand: Rich, Adrienne Cecile/ Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth/ Gelpi, Albert (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and prose in recent years. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly annotated volume ideally suited ... [Read More]

  • Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

    • ASIN: 1250195896
    • ISBN: 1250195896
    • Manufacturer: Feiwel & Friends

    Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down―and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert's Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in t... [Read More]

  • Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

    • ASIN: 0393323129
    • ISBN: 0393323129
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."―Women's Review of Books These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hop... [Read More]

  • The Best American Poetry 1996

    • ASIN: 068481451X
    • ISBN: 068481451X
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (Norton Paperback)

    • ASIN: 0393323773
    • ISBN: 0393323773
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "A challenging collection that should more than satisfy [Rich's] large and loyal following."―Washington Post Book World In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and ... [Read More]

  • Ten Poems for Difficult Times

    • ASIN: 1608685292
    • ISBN: 1608685292
    • Manufacturer: New World Library

    In his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers’ concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden’s incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our personal challenges and to our cultural a... [Read More]

  • A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems, 1978-1981

    • ASIN: 0393014940
    • ISBN: 0393014940
    • Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc

    Poetry focusing on the themes of self-searching and self-discovery journeys beyond self to find other selves within each individual and other selves outside

  • Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books)

    • ASIN: 1852423234
    • ISBN: 1852423234
    • Brand: Brand: Serpent's Tail
    • Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail

    For HarukoLittle moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing light into a blurred excitementThen she opens all of one eye as accurate as longing as two hands beholden to the hunger of green leavesand rinsing them back into regular breath she who sees she frees each of these beggarly events cleansing them of dust... [Read More]

  • The Aesthetics of Power: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

    • ASIN: 0820333514
    • ISBN: 0820333514
    • Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press

    When still a senior at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich was selected as a Yale Younger Poet. The judge, W.H. Auden, wrote the introduction to her first book of poems. Thus Rich's career was launched by one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century, someone Rich herself admired and emulated. Adrienne Rich's early mentors were men, and her ear... [Read More]

  • Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

    • ASIN: 1400033217
    • ISBN: 1400033217
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the opium of sunsets; Ursula K. Le Guin envisioni... [Read More]

  • She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

    • ASIN: 1455589012
    • ISBN: 9781455589012
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty ... [Read More]

  • Best Poems of 1955 Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1956

    • ASIN: B000IAHQHW
    • Manufacturer: Stanford University Press

  • The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

    • ASIN: 0393327558
    • ISBN: 0393327558
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred review In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("N... [Read More]

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