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

by Adrienne Rich

Overview

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.

Product Details

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

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

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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