Adrienne Rich : challenging authors / Karen F. Stein (University of Rhode Island, USA).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In her six-decade long writing career Adrienne Rich (1929?2012) addressed, with sagacity and probing honesty, most of the significant issues of her lifetime. A poet of finely tuned craft, she won numerous prizes, awards, and honorary degrees, and famously rejected the prestigious National Medal for the Arts in 1997. She wrote twenty-five volumes of poetry and seven non-fiction books as she combined the roles of poet, scholar, theorist, and activist. Rich wrote passionately and powerfully about major 20th and early 21st century concerns such as feminism, racism, sexism, the Vietnam War, Marxism, militarism, the growing income disparities in the U.S., and other social issues. Her works ask important questions about how we should act, and what we should believe. They imagine new ways to deal with the social and political challenges of the twentieth century.00Setting her work in the context of her life and American politics and culture during her lifetime, this book explores Rich?s poetic and personal journey from conservative, dutiful follower of cultural and poetic traditions to challenging questioner and critic, from passivity and powerlessness to activist, theorist, and acclaimed "poet of the oppositional imagination."

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: Adrienne Rich: Poet of the Oppositional Imagination -- A CHALLENGING AUTHOR -- THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2: SOURCES: A Brief Biographical Introduction to Adrienne Rich -- THE RICH FAMILY -- SCHOOL YEARS -- CAREER, MARRIAGE, AND MOTHERHOOD -- BECOMING AN ACTIVIST -- SELECTED LIST OF MEMORIALS AND CELEBRATIONS OF HER LIFE -- NOTES

CHAPTER 3: EARLY POEMS: A Change of World, the Diamond Cutters, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, Necessities of Life, Leaflets, and the Will to ChangeA CHANGE OF WORLD (1951) -- The American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion -- THE DIAMOND CUTTERS (1955) -- The American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (1963) -- The American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion -- NECESSITIES OF LIFE (1966) -- The American Political and Social Context

Critical ReceptionDiscussion -- LEAFLETS (1969) -- American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discusssion -- THE WILL TO CHANGE (1971) -- American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4: LATER POEMS, PART ONE: FEMINISM 1973â#x80;#x93;1981: Diving into the Wreck, the Dream of a Common Language and a Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far -- REAPPROPRIATING THE HEROIC JOURNEY MYTH -- DIVING INTO THE WRECK (1973) -- American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion

THE DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE (1978)American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion -- A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME THIS FAR (1981) -- American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion -- Evolving Feminist Theory; Expanding Inclusiveness -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5: LATER POEMS, PART II: 1984â#x80;#x93;2012: The Fact of a Doorframe; Your Native Land, Your Life; Timeâ#x80;#x99;s Power, An Atlas of the Difficult World, Dark Fields of the Republic; Midnight Salvage; Fox; The School Among the Ruins; Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth.

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve and Later Poems -- THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME: POEMS SELECTED AND NEW 1950â#x80;#x93;1984 (1984) -- Discussion -- YOUR NATIVE LAND, YOUR LIFE (1986) -- The American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion -- Section I: â#x80;#x9C;Sources:â#x80;#x9D; Jewish Identity and the Continuing Search for a Home -- Section II: â#x80;#x9C;North American Timeâ#x80;#x9D; -- Section III: â#x80;#x9C;Contradictions: Tracking Poemsâ#x80;#x9D; -- TIMEâ#x80;#x99;S POWER: POEMS 1985â#x80;#x93;1988 (1989) -- The American Political and Social Context -- Critical Reception -- Discussion

""AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: POEMS 1988â#x80;#x93;1991 (1992)""

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