Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


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 (1955)
    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
    Antino¸s: 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 1965-1968 (1969)
    Orion
    The Demon Lover
    5:330 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
    Walking 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 Doorframe
    From an Old House in America
  
  From The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (1978)
    Power
    Phantasia for Elvita Shatayev
    Splittings
    Twenty-One Love Poems
    Transcendental Etude
  
  From A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1981)
    Integrity
    Transit
    For Memory
    For Ethel Rosenberg
    The Spirit of Place: v
    Turning the Wheel: 8
  
  From Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986)
    Sources
    North American Time
    Upcountry
    In the Wake of Home
    Poetry: I
    Poetry: III
    Yom Kippur 1984
    Contradictions: Tracking Poems: 3, 6, 7, 18, 26, 28, 29
  
  From Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989)
    Solfeggietto
    The Desert as Garden of Paradise: 1, 4, 9, 11
    Delta
    6/21
    Dreamwood
    Living Memory
    Turning: 5
  
  From An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991)
    An Atlas of the Difficult World
    Eastern War Time: 10
    Tattered Kaddish
    Darklight: II
    Final Notations

Prose

  [Poetry and Experience: Statement at a Poetry Reading] (1964)
  When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971)
  Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson (1975)
  Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
  Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
  Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity (1982)
  Blood, Bread, and Poetry: The Location of the Poet (1984)
  The Genesis of "Yom Kippur 1984" (1987)
  Adrienne Rich: An Interview with David Montenegro (1991)
  Swarthmore College Commencement June 1, 1992
  
Reviews and Criticism
  
  W. H. Auden · Foreword to A Change of World
  John Ashbery · Tradition and Talent
  Margaret Atwood · Review of Diving into the Wreck
  Albert Gelpi · Adrienne Rich: The Poetics of Change
  Helen Vendler · Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds
  Judith McDaniel · "Reconstituting the World": The Poetry and
    Vision of Adrienne Rich
  Olga Broumas · Review of The Dream of a Common Language
  Adrian Oktenberg · "Disloyal to Civilization": The Twenty-One
    Love Poems
of Adrienne Rich
  Charles Altieri · Self-Reflection as Action: The Recent Work
    of Adrienne Rich
  Terrence Des Pres · Adrienne Rich, North America East
  Willard Spiegelman · "Driving to the Limits of the City of
    Words": The Poetry of Adrienne Rich
  Albert Gelpi · The Poetics of Recovery: A Reading of Adrienne
    Rich's Sources
  Joanne Feit Diehl · "Of Woman Born" Adrienne Rich and the
    Feminist Sublime

Adrienne Rich: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index





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