Essential Essays

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Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

By Adrienne Rich

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Essential Essays collects the powerful writings of Adrienne Rich, from the 1960s through 2006, revealing her deep intellectual engagement with feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity. Selected by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert, these essays showcase Rich's unique voice that intertwines the political, personal, and poetical.
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Ideal for readers interested in feminist thought, social justice, poetry, and political activism, as well as those drawn to profound literary essays exploring identity and culture.

A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.

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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.

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Praised by the International New York Times for its immersive intelligence and emotional depth, readers are likened to swimming through the vast arteries of a blue whale. The Irish Times highlights Rich's modern and urgent call to question outdated politics, calling these essays truly essential reading.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393355130

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 August 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Contributors:

Edited by Sandra M. Gilbert

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 427g

Pages: 352

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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 (1936—2024) was a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC.

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