Rich, Adrienne Cecille
Rich, Adrienne Cecille ( 1929 – ),American poet, essayist, and critic, born in 1929 ; she graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 . She has held a variety of academic posts, most recently professor in Stanford, California. Rich has published steadily since A Change of World ( 1951 ), though it was only with her third collection, Snapshots of a Daughter in Law ( 1956 ), that her characteristic, fractured, free verse, frequently in lengthy sequences, began to emerge. Rich's volumes through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s keep pace with her own increasing politicization and involvement with first the anti-war movement, and then lesbian/feminist politics, making them valuable representative documents of their times. Her poetry allies the personal ever more closely with the political, typically juxtaposing scenes of domestic life with reminders of horrifying instances of history. Diving into the Wreck (...
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