Albert Gelpi

Adrienne Rich

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

Gavin

Poems are better than the prose, early better than late, but all are pretty good.

  Be proud, when you have set 
The final spoke of flame 
In that prismatic wheel, 
And nothing’s left this day 
Except to see the sun 
Shine on the false and the true, 
And know that Africa 
Will yield you more to do.


She has a bad habit, common in critical theory, of confusing possible nasty interpretations of texts with the author's intention or with reality, and so dismissing the work. But, along with Greer, Dworkin, Young, and Sontag I don't think I'll stop reading her, no matter how much I disagree.

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose Poems, Prose, Reviews, and Criticism

Reviews