The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1971-05-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393348164

"The Will to Change is an extraordinary book of poems...It has the urgency of a prisoner's journal: patient, laconic, eloquent, as if determined thoughts were set down in stolen moments." —David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review "The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...It includes moments when poverty and heroism explode grammer with their own dignified unsyntactical demands...The poems are about departures, about the pain of breaking away from lovers and from an old sense of self. They discover the point where loneliness and politics touch, where the exercise of the radical courage takes its inevitable toll."—David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review

Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968

Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 63
Release: 1969-03-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393348083

Leaflets is Adrienne Rich's fifth book of poems. It contains twenty-eight new poems, five adaptations of Dutch, Yiddish, and Russian poets, and a sequence of seventeen poems loosely based on the ghazal, a common form in Middle Eastern poetic tradition; these ghazals comprise a kind of notebook of a month in the summer of 1968. The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation. Miss Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it—that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover—literally—this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action."

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1993-07-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393348156

“We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion.”—New York Times Book Review

Everyday and Prophetic

Everyday and Prophetic
Author: Nick Halpern
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780299173401

Everyday and Prophetic is the first book to describe and analyze at length the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. Nick Halpern's commentaries on the work of Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, and Louise Glück, serve the reader with a fresh and original context in which to see their work, and Postwar American poetry as a whole.

Open Admissions

Open Admissions
Author: Danica Savonick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 147805963X

In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period, during which cuny guaranteed tuition-free admission to every city high school graduate, was one of the most controversial in US educational history. Analyzing their archival teaching materials—syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments—alongside their published work, Savonick reveals how these renowned writers were also transformative educators who developed creative methods of teaching their students to navigate and change the world. In fact, many of their methods—such as student-led courses, collaborative public projects, and the publication of student writing—anticipated the kinds of student-centered and antiracist pedagogies that have become popular in recent years. In addition to recovering the pedagogical legacy of these writers, Savonick shows how teaching in cuny’s free and open classrooms fundamentally altered their writing and, with it, the course of American literature and feminist criticism.

The Still Performance

The Still Performance
Author: James McCorkle
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780813911960

The Still Performance examines the poetry of five postmodern American poets: Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashberry, Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, and Charles Wright. McCorkle devotes a chapter to each one of these five poets and provides an extensive overview of their poetics. The author concludes that postmodern poetry, and these poets in particular, are engaged in various but overlapping reappraisals of modernism. More importantly, he asserts the necessity of critical inquiry bound to the persistent act of self-examination.

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
Author: Mark Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107123828

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.

Virtual Americas

Virtual Americas
Author: Paul Giles
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822329671

DIVA discussion on the ways in which representations in the U.S. have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era./div

Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero

Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Author: Laura Hinton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498528740

One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics and performance—all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and Rich.