Author Sites

Adrienne Rich, Influential Feminist Poet, Dies at 82

Photo by Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz

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

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss
Paperback, 2021
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2006
"Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred review
Fox: Poems 1998-2000
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2003
"A challenging collection that should more than satisfy [Rich's] large and loyal following."—Washington Post Book World
A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2010
“Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters.”—Nadine Gordimer
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2011
“Rich’s poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.”—Booklist
Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971–2012
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2013
The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice.
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2015
A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.
Collected Poems: 1950–2012
Adrienne Rich, Claudia Rankine
E Book, 2016
The collected works of Adrienne Rich, “one of the most influential and political American poets of the last century” (The Guardian).
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2012
“Rich’s lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Adrienne Rich
E Book, 2015
"Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."—Women's Review of Books