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Adrienne Rich






Adrienne Rich

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born
January 01, 1929

gender
female

place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian


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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929). Born to a middle-class family, Rich was educated by her parents until she entered public school in the fourth grade. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College in 1951, the same year her first book of poems, A Change of World, appeared. That volume, chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, and her next, The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems (1955), earned her a reputation as an elegant, controlled stylist.

In the 1960s, however, Rich began a dramatic shift away from her earlier mode as she took up political and feminist themes and stylistic experimentation in such works as Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), The Necessities of Life (1966), Leaflets (1969), and The Will ...more




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Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1... Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.23 — 570 ratings — published 1973
3 editions
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The Dream of a Common Language... The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.39 — 454 ratings — published 1980
3 editions
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The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems... The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950-1984
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.41 — 338 ratings — published 1985
4 editions
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An Atlas of the Difficult Worl... An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.23 — 207 ratings — published 1991
2 editions
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence:... On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.35 — 163 ratings — published 1980
4 editions
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood As E... Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.14 — 168 ratings — published 1976
9 editions
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Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Pro... Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.06 — 134 ratings — published 1993
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What is Found There: Notebooks... What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, Expanded Edition
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.25 — 127 ratings — published 1993
3 editions
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A Wild Patience Has Taken Me T... A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.21 — 114 ratings — published 1981
3 editions
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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Sele... Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979 -1985 (Norton Paperback)
by Adrienne Rich
avg rating 4.08 — 115 ratings — published 1986
5 editions
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"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way."
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"I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons"
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"You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it."
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