|aEssential essays :|bculture, politics, and the art of poetry /|cAdrienne Rich ; edited and with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert.
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|aculture, politics, and the art of poetry
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|aNew York :|bW.W. Norton & Co.,|cc2018.
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|axx, 411 p. ;|c25 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aThe treasures that prevail / Sandra M. Gilbert -- On lies, secrets, and silence: selected prose 1966-1978 -- When we dead awaken: writing as revision -- Temptations of a motherless woman: Jane Eyre -- Vesuvius at home: the power of Emily Dickinson -- Poetry and experience: statement at a poetry reading -- Caryatid: a column -- Of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution -- Foreword -- Anger and tenderness -- Motherhood and daughterhood -- blood, bread, and poetry: selected prose 1979-1985 -- What does a woman need to know? -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian experience -- The eye of the outsider: Elizabeth Bishop's complete poems, 1927-1979 -- Blood, bread, and poetry: the location of the poet -- What is found there: notebooks on poetry and politics -- Woman and bird -- Voices from the air -- The distance between language and violence -- Not how to write poetry, but wherefore -- Rotted names -- A poet's education -- Tourism and the promised lands -- Six meditations in place of a lecture -- Arts of the possible -- Muriel Rukeyser: her vision -- Why I refused the National Medal for the Arts -- Arts of the possible -- A Human Eye -- Permeable membrane -- Poetry and forgotten future.
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|a"A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and a major intellectual voice of her generation. The Essential Essays gathers twenty- five of Rich's most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich's essays unite the political, personal, and poetical"--|cProvided by publisher.
Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and a major intellectual voice of her generation. The Essential Essays gathers twenty- five of Rich’s most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich’s essays unite the political, personal, and poetical.Included are Rich’s landmark essays “Motherhood as Experience and Institution”; “What Is Found There,” about the need to reexamine the canon; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts”; “When We Dead Awaken”; and “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence.” As Sandra M. Gilbert writes in her introduction, “To re-read and to re-think Rich’s prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual— responsible, self-questioning, and morally passionate.”