Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich’s poetry and essays reflect her experiences as a fairly traditional 1950’s wife and mother through her growing consciousness as a “woman-identified” feminist and lesbian. In her poems, Rich voices the conflicts, confusion, anger, and desire for wholeness felt by millions of women. In the title poem of Diving into the Wreck (1973), she describes American culture’s “book of myths/ in which/ our names do not appear.” The collection received a National Book Award; Rich declined the award personally but accepted in the name of all...

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• Adrienne Rich (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Adrienne Rich (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Adrienne Rich (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Adrienne Rich (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Adrienne Rich (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))

See Also:

• Arts of the Possible (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Poetry)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Women’s Literature)
• Atlas of the Difficult World, An (Magill Book Reviews)
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry (Women’s Literature)
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Women’s Literature)
• Diving into the Wreck (Masterplots Classics)
• Diving into the Wreck (Poetry)
• Diving into the Wreck (Literary Places)
• Dream of a Common Language, The (Identities and Issues)
• For a Sister (Poetry)
• Fox (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Living in Sin (Poetry)
• Of Woman Born (Women’s Literature)
• On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (Women’s Literature)
• Poetry of Adrienne Rich (Identities and Issues)
• Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Poetry)
• Time’s Power (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Trying to Talk with a Man (Poetry)
• Your Native Land, Your Life (Magill Book Reviews)
• English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)