Blood, Bread, and Poetry
Title | Blood, Bread, and Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Feminism |
ISBN | 9780393303971 |
Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich explores in this collection the intricacies of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a U.S. citizen, both at this time of her life and through the lens of her past.
Blood, Bread, and Poetry
Title | Blood, Bread, and Poetry PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 1986 |
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ISBN | 9780039311629 |
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
Title | Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 1994-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0393348040 |
That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and political context of her life and art. Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
Title | On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1995-04-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393348113 |
In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."
Borderwork
Title | Borderwork PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret R. Higonnet |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801481079 |
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline and calls for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender.
Poetry and Commitment
Title | Poetry and Commitment PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 63 |
Release | 2011-02-07 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393079724 |
In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's disparagement as "either immoral or unprofitable," the politics of translation, how poetry enters into extreme situations, different poetries as conversations across place and time. In its openness to many voices, Poetry and Commitment offers a perspective on poetry in an ever more divided and violent world. "I hope never to idealize poetry—it has suffered enough from that. Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard."
Your Native Land, Your Life
Title | Your Native Land, Your Life PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Rich |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 1993-10-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393348172 |
A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems. The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, erased. I believe more than ever that the search for justice and compassion is the great wellspring for poetry in our time, throughout the world, though the theme of despair has been canonized in this country. I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so."