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  <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 to Change (1971). In Diving into the Wreck (1973) and The Dream of a Common Language (1978), she continued to experiment with form and to deal with the experiences and aspirations of women from a feminist perspective. 

In addition to her poetry, Rich has published many essays on poetry, feminism, motherhood, and lesbianism. Her recent collections include An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991) and Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (1995). 

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  <title><![CDATA[Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950-1984]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, Expanded Edition]]></title>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979 -1985 (Norton Paperback)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></name>
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  <published>1986</published>  
  
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