Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Richās essays unite the political, personal, and poetical like no other.
Essential Essays is edited and includes an introduction by leading feminist scholar, literary critic, and poet Sandra M. Gilbert. Emphasizing Richās lifelong intellectual engagement, the essays selected here range from the 1960s to 2008. The volume contains one of Richās earliest essays,āWhen We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,ā which discusses the need for female self-definition, along with excerpts from her ambitious, ground-breaking Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. As the New York Times wrote, Rich ābrought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse,ā as evidenced in her 1980 essay, āCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.ā
Also among these insightful and forward-thinking works are: āSplit at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identityā; excerpts from What Is Found There, about the need to reexamine the literary canon; āWhy I Refused the National Medal for the Artsā; āPoetry and the Forgotten Futureā; and other writings that profoundly shaped second-wave feminism, each balanced by Richās signature blend of research, theory, and self-reflection.
This book title, Essential Essays (Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry), ISBN: 9780393652369, by Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert, published by W. W. Norton & Company (August 28, 2018) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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