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Adrienne Rich, Influential Feminist Poet, Dies at 82

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Adrienne Rich

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.

Adrienne Rich

Awards

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2000

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1978

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2011

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1990

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1991

Winner — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 1992

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 1991

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1992

Winner — Lambda Literary Award, 2002

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2004

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2017

Books by Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2015
In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim—to discover—what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored.
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2015
“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2015
"An impressive new volume. . . . Rich's admirers will recognize the complex symbiosis between the activist and the maker of new language, each propelling, describing, provoking the other's words."—...
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
Adrienne Rich
Expanded Edition, E Book, 2015
America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the proven and potential role of poetry in contemporary politics and life.
A Change of World: Poems
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2016
This reissue of Adrienne Rich’s first poetry collection reaffirms the author’s place as one of our most important American poets.
Selected Poems: 1950-2012
Adrienne Rich, Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Brett C. Millier
E Book, 2018
Sixty years of poems from a National Book Award winner and pioneering writer, activist and intellectual.
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert
E Book, 2018
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss
E Book, 2021
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962
Adrienne Rich
Paperback, 1967
"The risk this book quietly takes, and impressively fulfills, is no less than to get life said.... Newly freed from the metrical conventions of her earlier books, Adrienne Rich has lost none of her...