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For Adrienne Rich, ‘Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.’ Below, we select and introduce ten of her finest poems, spanning her long career, each one overcoming a silence that had to be broken. 1. ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’.
Beginning with Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 (1963), Rich’s work has explored issues of identity, sexuality, and politics; her formally ambitious poetics have reflected her continued search for social justice, her role in the anti-war movement, and her radical feminism. Using the cadences of everyday speech, enjambment, and ...
Poems by Adrienne Rich. <p> Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women.
Adrienne Rich was an American poet known for her free-verse poems and versatility. Her poems are rated highly, and ‘Storm Warnings’ is no different. It is a warning about the impending doom that represents social unrest in troubled regions.
What Kind of Times Are These. By Adrienne Rich. There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill. and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows. near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted. who disappeared into those shadows.
(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered) Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine—t ender, delicate your lovemaking, like the half-curled frond of the fiddlehead fern in forests just washed by...
the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck. the thing itself and not the myth. the drowned face always staring. toward the sun. the evidence of damage. worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty. the ribs of the disaster. curving their assertion.
In memory of Rich's contributions to progressive politics and poetry, The Nation features below some of her poems published in the magazine in over five decades of writing. At Willard Brook...
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.
Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012) was one of the USA’s foremost poets, and her poetry’s intelligent and outspoken political commitment makes her one of the most provocative. She was awarded, among others, the Bollingen Prize and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Book Award and the Wallace Stevens Award for “outstanding and proven ...