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Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"

BIOGRAPHY

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(b. 1929)

Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore. Since the selection of her first volume by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets (1951), her work has continually evolved, from the tightly controlled early poems to the politically and personally charged verse for which she is known today. Rich's books of poetry include Collected Early Poems 1950–1970 (1993), The Dream of a Common Language (1978), Your Native Land, Your Life (1986), Time's Power (1988), An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991), Dark Fields of the Republic (1995), Midnight Salvage (1999), Fox (2001), and The School among the Ruins (2004). Her prose works include Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976), On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (1979), and Blood, Bread, and Poetry (1986), all influential feminist texts; What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (1993); and Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (2001). Her many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lanning Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

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