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 range[...]

Adrienne Rich's Later Poems Selected and New displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After her death Rich left a manuscript that speaks for her concern with a poetics of relation along with a passionate attention to craft. In addition [...]

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This Adrienne Rich selection has been revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career. It forms a useful introduction to her work, from her formative lyricism in "A Change of "Word" (1951), to the poems of "Diving into the Wreck" (1973), to the searching voice of "Fox" (2001).[...]

"Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century ...attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she's racked up...The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material."-Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chr[...]