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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

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.

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

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

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 1993

    “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
  • Your Native Land, Your Life

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 1994

    A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems.
  • Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 1996

    That Adrienne Rich is a not only a major American poet but an incisive, compelling prose writer is made clear once again by this collection, in which she continues to explore the social and...
  • What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

    Adrienne Rich

    Expanded Edition, Paperback, 1994

    America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the proven and potential role of poetry in contemporary politics and life.
  • On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 1995

    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.
  • Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 1995

    More than 200 poems collected from Adrienne Rich's first six books, plus a dozen others of those decades.
  • Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 1995

    "When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its direction" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the...
  • Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 2002

    "Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."—Women's Review of Books
  • Fox: Poems 1998-2000

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 2003

    "A challenging collection that should more than satisfy [Rich's] large and loyal following."—Washington Post Book World
  • The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

    Adrienne Rich

    Paperback, 2006

    "Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred review