Essential essays
Subtitle: culture, politics, and the art of poetry
By: Adrienne Rich ; edited and with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert
Contributors: Gilbert, Sandra M., editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780393652369
Subjects: Art and society; Social change in literature; Poetry; Feminism
Work titles: Essays
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.
Table of contents: title: When we dead awaken: writing as re-vision (1971) --; title: Jane Eyre: The temptations of a motherless woman (1973) --; title: Vesuvious at home: the power of emily Dickinson (1975) -- Poetry and experience: statement at a poetry reading (1964) --; title: From Caryatid: a column (1973) --; title: anger and tenderness --; title: Motherhood and daughterhood --; title: What does a woman need to know? (1979) --; title: Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence (1980) --; title: Split at the root: an essay on Jewish identity (1982) --; title: The eye of the outsider: Elizabeth Bishop's Complete poems, 1927-1079 (1983) --; title: Blood, bread, and poetry: The location of the poet (1984) --; title: Woman and bird --; title: Voices from the air --; title: The distance between language and violence --; title: Not how to write poetry, but wherefore --; title: "Rotted names" --; title: A poet's education --; title: Tourism and promised lands --; title: Six meditations in place of a lecture --; title: Muriel Rukeyser: her vision (1993) --; title: Why I refused the National Medal for the Arts (1997) --; title: Arts of the possible (1997) --; title: Permeable membrane (2005) --; title: Poetry and the forgotten future (2006).