Adrienne Rich

A seventh volume of poetry involves a search to discover and reclaim what has been lost, forgotten, or unexplored. Reissue.

Poems, 1971-1972

Diving Into the Wreck

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

Poems

Your Native Land, Your Life

With more than 700,000 copies of her books sold, Adrienne Rich's work is unequaled today in reclaiming serious poetry from scholars and returning it to the lives of general readers. Collected here for the first time are more than 200 poems: all those in her first six books plus a dozen others of those decades. From her first publication, when she was twenty-one, in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, the successive volumes of Rich's poems have both charted the growth of her own mind and vision, and mirrored our tempestuous, unsettled age. Her unmistakable voice, speaking even from the earliest poems with rare assurance and precision, wrestles with urgent questions while never failing to explore new poetic territory. This collection is a triumphant assertion of the centrality of poetry in our intertwined personal and political realms, and it confirms Rich's position among the enduring poets of our language.

Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970

Selected Prose, 1966-1978

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence

A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.

Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

Essential Essays

A collection of poems focuses on such topics as the land's hope and despair, people's dreams and nightmares, and love and anguish

Poems, 1988-1991

An Atlas of the Difficult World

Verse explorations of woman-to-woman relationships and encounters, both physical and spiritual, underscore the need for women to find one another for survival and for the transformation of social institutions.

Poems, 1974-1977

The Dream of a Common Language

The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere. A “powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection” (Sandra M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionized how women thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Albert Gelpi

Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

Presents an annotated selection of poems and prose writings by twentieth-century American author Adrienne Rich, and includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of her work.

Poems, Prose, Reviews, and Criticism

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose

Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.

Poems 2007-2010

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

Drawing on her journals, letters, dreams, memories, and careful readings of many poets, the award-winning poet reflects on the influence of literature on American life and politics today

Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

What is Found There

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 Award-winning 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.

1950-2012

Collected Poems

"Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."—Women's Review of Books These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes. The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart. This volume collects Rich's essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts. "The work is inspired and inspiring."—Alicia Ostriker "[S]o clear and clean and thorough. I learn from her again and again."—Grace Paley

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Poems examine the United States, the past, dreams, friendship, wife abuse, imprisonment, Jewish heritage, the seasons, and the nature of poetry

Poems, 1954-1962

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law

Sixty years of poems from pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual Adrienne Rich--"the Blake of American letters" (Nadine Gordimer). 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.

Selected Poems, 1950-2012

Twenty One Love Poems

Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús

El sueño de una lengua común

A collection of essays examining a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and transformations.

Adrienne Rich

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