Selected poems, 1950-2012
Book - 2018
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
-
New York :
W. W. Norton & Company
[2018]
- Edition
- First edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 421 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780393355116
039335511X - Main Author
- From A Change of World (1951)
- From the Diamond Cutters and other Poems (1955)
- From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 (1963)
- From Necessities of Life: Poems 1962-1965 (1966)
- From Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968 (1969)
- From The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 (1971)
- From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973)
- From Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1975)
- From The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (1978)
- From A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1981)
- From Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986)
- From Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989)
- From An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991)
- From Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (1995)
- From Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (1999)
- From Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (2001)
- From The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (2004)
- From Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 (2007)
- From Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 (2011)
- From Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971-2012 (2013).
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Rich’s published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known work—the clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of the 1970s, including “Diving into the Wreck,” “Planetarium,” and “The Phenomenology of Anger”—and offers the full range of her evolution as a poet. From poems leading up to her feminist breakthrough through bold later work such as “North American Time” and “Calle Visión,” Selected Poems celebrates Rich’s prophetic vision as well as the inventiveness that shaped her enduring art.
Review by Publisher Summary 2Sixty years of poems from pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual Adrienne Rich—“the Blake of American letters” (Nadine Gordimer).