This Norton Critical Edition represents the work of one of America's fore-most poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary, achieve-ments in both poetry and prose. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly an-notated volume ideally suited for classroom study of one of our most distinguished working writers.
In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Rieh's evolution and accomplishment. Poems appearing in Adrienne Rich's Poetry, were carefully reconsidered...
This Norton Critical Edition represents the work of one of America's fore-most poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary, achieve-ments in both poetry and prose. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly an-notated volume ideally suited for classroom study of one of our most distinguished working writers.
In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Rieh's evolution and accomplishment. Poems appearing in Adrienne Rich's Poetry, were carefully reconsidered. Many of the new poems in this expanded selection are from The Dream of a Commolz Langu, ge (1978), A Wild Patience Has Tahey Me This Far (1981), Your Native Land, Your Life (1986), Timey Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989), and An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991). Prose selections include 'When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision.' Rich's canonical statement on femi-nism: 'Compulsod Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. on being a les-bian in a heterosexual world. RJch's revealing inten.'iew for American Poetv Revieae: and her previously unpublished commentary on the genesis of the poem Yom Kippur 1984.
The editors have also taken into account the many essays and rewews on Rich and her work that have been published since I975. They have re-moved earlier Biographically oriented selections in favor of pieces that focus on the qualitv of Rich's wrinng and bet place in twentieth-centud' Ameri-can literature not just as a poet but as a woman a lesbian, and a mother.
Criticism now includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of Rieh's work. ten of which are new. Among those critics newly included are Charles Altieri. Joanna Feit Diehl. Judith McDaniel. and Adrian Oktenberg. A second study by Albert Gelpi traces the events in Rich's life from which her work evolves.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Poems
From A Change of World (1951)
Storm Warnings
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Afterward
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
An Unsaid Word
From The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems (19~)
Living in Sin
The Diamond Cutters
From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 (1963)
The Knight
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Antinofis: The Diaries
A Marriage in the 'Sixties
The Roofwalker
Ghost of a Chance
Prospective Immigrants Please Note
From Necessities of Life: Poems 1962-1965 (1966)
Necessities of Life
In the Woods
The Trees
Like This Together
After Dark
I Am in Danger-Sir-
FOCUS
Face to Face
From Leaflets: Poems 196~-1968 (1969)
Orion
The Demon Lover
5:30 A.M.
Implosions
On Edges
Nightbreak
From The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 (1971)
Planetarium
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children
I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus
Our Whole Life
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Shooting Script (11/69-7/70): 1, 8, 13, 14
From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973)
Trying to Talk with a Man
Waking in the Dark
The Stranger
Diving into the Wreck
The Phenomenology of Anger
From a Survivor
For the Dead
From Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1975)
Re-forming the Crystal
The Fact of a Doofframe
From an Old House in America
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)
Prose
Reviews and Criticism
Adrienne Rich: A Chronology
Selected Biblisography
Index
