| Description |
xiii, 367 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Under discussion |
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Under discussion.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Contemporary Essays on Rich's Poetry -- "Reconstituting the World": The Poetry and Vision of Adrienne Rich / Judith McDaniel -- "The Angels Chiding": Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law / Claire Keyes -- Mining the "Earth-Deposits": Women's History in Adrienne Rich's Poetry / Marianne Whelchel -- "Disloyal to Civilization": The Twenty-One Love Poems of Adrienne Rich / Adrian Oktenberg -- "Cartographies of Silence": Rich's Common Language and the Woman Poet / Joanne Feit Diehl -- Beginning Again / Jane Vanderbosch -- "Imagining the Existence of Something Uncreated": Elements of Emerson in Adrienne Rich's Dream of a Common Language / Gertrude Reif Hughes -- A Nurturing Ethos in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin -- Adrienne Rich and H.D.: An Intertextual Study / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Pt. 2. Reviews of Rich's Poetry, 1951-81 -- Foreword to A Change of World / W. H. Auden -- A Diet of Dissatisfaction / Donald Hall -- "Rethinking the World" / Philip Booth -- Tradition and Talent / John Ashbery -- Review of Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968 / Denis Donoghue -- Review of The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 / David Kalstone -- "Trying to Save the Skein" / Cheryl Walker -- Cutting the Marble / Rosemary Tonks -- Review of Diving into the Wreck / Margaret Atwood -- Review of Poems: Selected and New 1950-1974 / Ruth Whitman -- "This Accurate Dreamer": An Appreciation of Poems: Selected and New 1950-1974 / Eleanor Wilner -- "To Move Openly Together / In the Pull of Gravity": A Review of Twenty-One Love Poems / Rima Shore -- Excellence in Poetry / Hayden Carruth -- Review of The Dream of a Common Language / Olga Broumas -- Adrienne Rich's Wild Patience / Sara Mandelbaum -- Pt. 3. Reviews and Studies of Rich's Prose -- Adrienne Rich Comes to Terms with "The Woman in the Mirror" / Jane Lazarre -- Reviewing Reviews: Of Woman Born / Kathleen Barry -- Reading the Poverty of Rich / Alexander Theroux -- A Poet's Feminist Prose / Ellen Moers -- Review of On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 / Ann Barr Snitow -- Adrienne Rich as Feminist Theorist / Gloria Bowles |
| Summary |
"This collection celebrates and interprets the work of poet and feminist theorist Adrienne Rich, whose work has been instrumental in shaping the women's movement over the last few decades. These essays and reviews trace the changes in Rich's poetry and politics, concentrating on the women's explorations that are at the heart of her work."--Book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 329-365 |
| Subject |
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Cooper, Jane Roberta, 1959-
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| LC no. |
83023377 |
| ISBN |
0472063502 (paperback) |
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0472093509 (hard) |
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