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Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry /

Title:
Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry /
Author:
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Introduction : The treasures that prevail -- On lies, secrets, and silence : selected prose 1966-1978. When we dead awaken : writing as re-vision (1971) ; Jane Eyre : the temptations of a motherless woman (1973) ; Vesuvius at home : the power of Emily Dickinson (1975) -- Uncollected. Poetry and experience : statement at a poetry reading (1964) ; from Caryatid : a column (1973) -- Of woman born : motherhood as experience and institution (1976). Foreword ; Anger and tenderness ; Motherhood and daughterhood -- Blood, bread, and poetry : selected prose 1979-1985. What does a woman need to know? (1979) ; Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence (1980) ; Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity (1982) ; The eye of the outsider : Elizabeth Bishop's Complete poems, 1927-1979 (1983) ; Blood, bread, and poetry : the location of the poet (1984) -- What is found there : notebooks on poetry and politics (1993, 2003). Woman and bird ; Voices from the air ; The distance between language and violence ; Not how to write poetry, but wherefore ; "Rotted names" ; A poet's education ; Tourism and promised lands ; Six mediations in place of a lecture -- Arts of the possible (2001). Muriel Rukeyser : her vision (1993) ; Why I refused the National Medal for the Arts (1997) ; Arts of the possible (1997) -- A human eye (2009). Permeable membrane (2005) ; Poetry and the forgotten future (2006).
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PS3535.I233 A6 2019 – Available