Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Adrienne Rich
(Author)
Sandra M. Gilbert
(Editor)
Description
Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich's singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich's lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
August 20, 2019
Pages
352
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.1 X 1.2 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393355130
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About the Author
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award-winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.
Sandra M. Gilbert is a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Reviews
A peerless pleasure.
Rich offers a powerful reminder of the continuous self-reflection required to fight ignorance--one's own and others'.... A profound and beautiful call to think, and feel, and fight.
Feminist poet and literary critic Gilbert skillfully selects examples that convey the considerable breadth of Rich's purview as an essayist and exhibit her characteristic strategy of rejecting surface explanations and turning experience around in the light of subjective truth. Approachable, effective excerpts afford breathtaking encounters with genius.
Vibrant.... [Rich's] essays, always provocative, clear, and packed with insights, are wise, refreshingly humane, and well worth reading.
An excellent guide to living for anyone invested in the feminist struggle today, or the struggle for self-determination and equality more broadly.
This collection refreshes an esteemed opinion of Rich's invaluable contributions to poetry and feminist thought.
Rich offers a powerful reminder of the continuous self-reflection required to fight ignorance--one's own and others'.... A profound and beautiful call to think, and feel, and fight.
Feminist poet and literary critic Gilbert skillfully selects examples that convey the considerable breadth of Rich's purview as an essayist and exhibit her characteristic strategy of rejecting surface explanations and turning experience around in the light of subjective truth. Approachable, effective excerpts afford breathtaking encounters with genius.
Vibrant.... [Rich's] essays, always provocative, clear, and packed with insights, are wise, refreshingly humane, and well worth reading.
An excellent guide to living for anyone invested in the feminist struggle today, or the struggle for self-determination and equality more broadly.
This collection refreshes an esteemed opinion of Rich's invaluable contributions to poetry and feminist thought.
