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Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 2
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ISBN-13: | 9780393265439 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 03/01/2018 |
Series: | Norton Critical Editions Series |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Sales rank: | 1,057,209 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi is Professor of English at Stanford University, where she has taught since 1968. She is the author of Shelleyís Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity and Dark Passages: The Decadent Consciousness in Victorian Literature, as well as numerous articles on, mainly, feminist and psychological literature. She is an editor of several important volumes, including Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideologies and Women and Poverty.
Albert Gelpi is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature at Stanford University, where he has also taught since 1968. His books include Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet, The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet, and, most recently, A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910-1950. He is the editor of Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism and Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism and for a decade edited Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture.
Brett C. Millier is the Reginald L. Cook Professor of American Literature at Middlebury College. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, and Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol. She is also associate editor of The Columbia History of American Poetry.
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xiv
A Note on the Text xiv
Poetry 1
Photograph: Adrienne Rich, 1974 2
From a Change of World (1951) 3
Storm Warnings 3
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 4
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room 4
From the Diamond Cutters and Other Poems (1955) 6
Living in Sin 6
The Diamond Cutters 7
From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 (1963) 9
The Knight 9
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 10
A Marriage in the 'Sixties 14
The Roof walker 16
From Necessities of Life: Poems 1962-1965 (1966) 17
Necessities of Life 17
The Trees 19
Like This Together 20
After Dark 22
"I Am in Danger-Sir-" 24
Focus 25
Face to Face 26
From Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968 (1969) 27
Orion 27
5:30 A.M. 28
On Edges 29
Nightbreak 30
From the Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 (1971) 32
Planetarium 32
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children 34
I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus 37
Our Whole Life 38
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 39
From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973) 40
Trying to Talk with a Man 40
The Stranger 41
Diving into the Wreck 42
The Phenomenology of Anger 44
For the Dead 49
From a Survivor 49
From Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1975) 51
The Fact of a Doorframe 51
From an Old House in America (sections 1-7, 13-16) 52
From the Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (1978) 59
Power 59
Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev 60
Twenty-One Love Poems 62
Transcendental Etude 72
From a Wild Patience has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1981) 77
Integrity 77
Transit 79
For Ethel Rosenberg 80
From Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986) 84
Sources 84
North American Time 98
Poetry: I 101
Poetry: III 102
Yom Kippur 1984 103
Contradictions: Tracking Poems: 6, 7, 18, 29 107
From Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989) 109
Solfeggietto 109
Delta 112
6/21 112
Dreamwood 113
From an Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991) 114
An Atlas of the Difficult World (sections I-IV, XIII) 114
Tattered Kaddish 122
Final Notations 123
From Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (1995) 124
Calle Visión 124
Take 130
From Piercéd Darkness 131
From Midnight Salvage: Poems 1955-1998 (1999) 134
Midnight Salvage 134
Camino Real 138
Seven Skins 141
From Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (2001) 144
Fox 144
Terza Rima 145
Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot 151
From the School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (2004) 153
Centaur's Requiem 153
Equinox 154
Tell Me 155
The School Among the Ruins 156
Memorize This 159
From Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 (2007) 161
Calibrations 161
Archaic 162
Long After Stevens 163
From Tonight no Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 (2011) 165
Waiting for Rain, for Music 165
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve 166
Axel Avákar 167
Axel Avákar 167
Axel: Backstory 167
Axel, In Thunder 168
I Was There, Axel 169
Axel, Darkly Seen, In a Glass House 170
Powers of Recuperation 172
From Later Poems: Selected and New 1971-2012 (2013) 176
Endpapers 176
Prose 179
Photograph: Adrienne Rich, 1987 180
[Poetry and Experience: Statement at a Poetry Reading] (1964) 181
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971) 182
Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson (1975) 193
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980) 212
Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity (1982) 234
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: The Location of the Poet (1984) 250
The Genesis of "Yom Kippur 1984" (1987) 264
Adrienne Rich: An Interview with David Montenegro (1991) 269
From What Is Found There (1993, 2003) 285
I Woman and bird (1993) 285
XIII Beginners (1993) 288
XXI The distance between language and violence (1993) 296
XXII Not how to write poetry, but wherefore (1993) 301
XXIII "Rotted names" (1993) 305
XXIX Six meditations in place of a lecture (2003) 311
Foreword to Arts of the Possible (2001) 327
Permeable Membrane (2005) 333
Reviews and Criticism 337
Photograph: Adrienne Rich, 2000 338
Foreword to A Change of World W. H. Auden 339
Review of Diving into the Wreck Margaret Atwood 341
Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds Helen Vendler 343
"Reconstituting the "World": The Poetry and Vision of Adrienne Rich Judith McDaniel 355
Review of The Dream of a Common Language Olga Broumas 367
Philoetetes Radicalized: "Twenty-One Love Poems" and the Lyric Career of Adrienne Rich Kevin McGuirk 374
Re-Forming the Cradle: Adrienne Rich's "Transcendental Etude" Jane Hedley 397
Singing America: From Walt Whitman to Adrienne Rich Peter Erickson 417
The "Possible Poet": Pain, Form, and the Embodied Poetics of Adrienne Rich in Wallace Stevens' Wake Cynthia Hogue 431
Adrienne Rich Eavan Boland 441
The Language of Witness: Adrienne Rich Albert Gelpi 444
Postscript 2016 Albert Gelpi 457
Boundary Conditions [Review of Collected Poems] Dan Chiasson 459
[The Poetic Is Political: Review of Collected Poems] Wayne Koestenbaum 465
"A Life Written in Invisible Ink": Adrienne Rich's Collected Poems Sandra M. Gilbert 468
A Chronology Adrienne Rich 475
Selected Bibliography 479
Index of Poem Titles and First Lines 483