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

1981 W.W. Norton trade paperback, 2nd printing. Adrienne Rich (The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977). "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

Literature & Fiction

RICH, Adrienne

Poetry

W.W.Norton

On Lies Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (Paperback) by Adrienne Rich (Author)

On Lies Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work.At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966 - 1978

Essays & Correspondence

The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, erased. I believe more than ever that the search for justice and compassion is the great wellspring for poetry in our time, throughout the world, though the theme of despair has been canonized in this country. I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so."

Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems

Norton

Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988

The author of "Dreams of a Common Language", "Your Native Land, Your Life" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" presents a new collection of poetry which focuses on the power of time: memory and its contradictions, death, and the meaning of human responsibility.

A new book of poems by one of America's most distinguished poets. The poems of Dark Fields of the Republic are a theater of voices: of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents. Rich writes out of conversations actual and imaginary, actions taken for better or for worse, out of histories and songs, humdrum and terrible events, out of the most intimate loves and love for the world. Through these poems, she extends the poet's reach of witness and power of connection, and invites the reader-listener to participate.

Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995

W.W.Norton&Company

A major new work by one of our most distinguished and commanding poets. In this new volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues taking the temperature of mind and body in her time in an intimate and yet commanding voice that resonates long after an initial reading. With two long exploratory poems ("Veteran's Day" and "Terza Rima") as framework, and the title poem as core, Fox is formidable and moving, fierce and passionate, and one of Rich's most powerful works to date.

Fox: Poems 1998-2000

The outstanding qualities of Adrienne Rich's mature work are a somber, penetrating intelligence and a swift, flashing verbal imagination. Working together, these qualities mean that the intelligence never plods and the imagination is never ungrounded in understanding. Necessities of Life, her fourth book, is an intense, compact entity. The translations from the Dutch that form its second half are not an arbitrary choice but an integral part of the whole. In recognizing and acting upon her affinity with these poems, and placing them side by side with her own new work, she further defines, for herself and for the reader, her sense of life and her poetics.

Necessities of Life

"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

The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

Bound in the publisher's original black cloth covered boards, spine stamped in gilt. Price clipped dust jacket is worn, particularly at the head and heel, and with a closed tear to one corner.

Poems: selected and new, 1950-1974

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