Description
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.
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.
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."
Book Information
ISBN 9780393311624
Author Adrienne Rich
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 324g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm
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.
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."
Book Information
ISBN 9780393311624
Author Adrienne Rich
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 324g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm
