Collected poems, 1950-2012
By: Adrienne Rich ; introduction by Claudia Rankine
Contributors: Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W W Norton Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1164
ISBN-13: 9780393285116
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.  This collected volume traces the evolution of her poetry, from her earliest work, which was formally exact and decorous, to her later work, which became increasingly radical in both its free-verse form and feminist and political content. The entire body of her poetry is on display in this vast volume, including the National Book Awardwinning Diving Into the Wreck and her prize-winning Atlas of the Difficult World. The Collected Poems of Adrienne Rich gathers and memorializes all of her boldly political, formally ambitious, thoughtful, and lucid work, the whole of which makes her one of the most prolific and influential poets of our time"--amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 1121-1146) and index.
Table of contents: title: A change of world (1951); title: Poems (1950-1951); title: The diamond cutters (1955); title: Snapshots of a daughter-in-law (1963); title: Poems (1955-1957); title: Necessities of life (1966); title: Poems (1962-1965); title: Leaflets (1969); title: Poems (1967-1969); title: The will to change (1971); title: Diving into the wreck (1971-1972); title: Poems (1973-1974); title: The dream of a common language (1974-1977); title: A wild patience has taken me this far (1978-1981); title: Your native land, your life (1981-1985); title: Time's power (1985-1988); title: An atlas of the difficult world (1988-1991); title: Dark fields of the republic (1991-1995); title: Midnight salvage (1995-1998); title: Fox (1998-2000); title: The school among the ruins (2000-2004); title: Telephone ringing in the labyrinth (2004-2006); title: Tonight no poetry will serve (2007-2010); title: Later poems (2010-2012).