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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

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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 political context of her life and art.

Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.

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ISBN-13:	9780393311624
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/1994
Edition description:	Reissued
Pages:	258
Sales rank:	508,197
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

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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.

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Rich not only asserts but demonstrates that every woman's soul is haunted 'by the spirits of earlier women who fought for their unmet needs'. . . . Throughout, Rich underscores the duty of American women artists to 'take women's existence seriously as a source of art.' Highly recommended. "

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Rich is the author of the prize-winning Your Native Land, Your Life and 12 other books of poems, yet these lucid, searching essays spring from her involvement since the early '70s with the feminist movement, and, where they touch on poetry, examine the social and political contexts of its making. In some of them Rich explores her complex identity as white, middle-class, Jewish, lesbian and American, and discusses her radicalization through the influence, largely, of Mary Wollstonecraft, James Baldwin and Simone de Beauvoir. In other pieces she assails ``enforced heterosexuality'' and, as it obtains in academia as well as society at large, ``the ideology of white male supremacy.'' Rich, who visited the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, considers that the United States has been ``deep-frozen for decades in the Cold War,'' but believes that American feminism, and especially black American feminism, can do much to foster the movements for sexual and political freedom throughout the world. (December 28)

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Rich's support of feminism and lesbian and gay rights, her protest against racism and anti-Semitism, and her belief that artist, university, and state should find moral commitment are all recurring themes in these recent commencement speeches, reviews, lectures, articles, and addresses. Rich not only asserts but demonstrates that every woman's soul is haunted ``by the spirits of earlier women who fought for their ummet needs'': an essay on Lorraine Hansberry tracks those painful contradictions of a black, female writer addressing those who are neither, while in an essay on Jewish identity, Rich herself exemplifies the difficulty of confronting one's roots. Throughout, Rich underscores the duty of American woman artists ``to take women's existence seriously as a source for art.'' Highly recommended. Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, English Dept., Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania

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