num_pages: 310
description: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is a sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, "playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language". A. Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing. "I find in myself both severe and tender thoughts toward the women I have been, whose thoughts I find here".
language: English
title: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
titlecomplete: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
genres: Feminism, Queer, Womens, Theory, Essays, Philosophy, LGBT, Poetry, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1078
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company