Adrienne Rich (born 1929), perhaps more than any other contemporary poet, crystallized in her work and life the deeply complex, awakening consciousness of modern women. The daughter of Arnold Rich, a professor of medicine, and Helen, a trained composer...

Adrienne Rich is one of the foremost poets and feminists of modern times. Her work spans more than forty years of her adult life, beginning in 1951 when she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for A Change of World (1951). Ever since, Rich's...

Adrienne Rich has made significant contributions as a critic, a scholar, and a teacher; but she speaks most importantly as a poet. Her work sustains her belief that "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language which is the power of our...

An important poet of the post-World War II era, Rich is praised for her lyrical and highly crafted poems in which she explores a variety of socially relevant subjects, including feminism and lesbianism. Rich is also an influential essayist whose...

Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher and...

On the Job I'm in the back of Dishes, on 45th off Fifth, on my lunch hour. The Fact of a Doorframe is open on the table, and I'm reading to write, the way I might read to write a poem, although now...

(W. W. Norton & Co., 2001) Why did Adrienne Rich develop an interest in the philosophy of Karl Marx? Why did she feel that feminism without Marx (I don't say Marxism because she writes of Marx, not Marxism, and quotes Marx's saying...

In the following essay, McGuirk situates Twenty-one Love Poems in "a context of poetics as ideology," exposing "the ideological limitations of a poetic mode" and theorizing a method of "reading lyric in general and Rich's lyric in particular."

In the essay below, Hammer meditates on various aspects of the relation between "culture" and "AIDS"—between aesthetics and sexuality—by comparing Rich's "In Memoriam: D. K." and James Merrill's "Farewell Performance."

Below, Greenwald explains the effect of Rich's feminist consciousness in her poetry of the Vietnam era, highlighting her empathy with "the Enemy" and her appeal for a subjective version of the truth about war.

Adrienne Rich's poetry serves a prophetic function by articulating the history and ideals of the feminist struggle. By recalling the ancient chthonic mysteries of blood and birth, by reconnecting daughters with their mothers, by drawing parallels between women today and their historical counterparts, and by envisioning the women of the future who will emerge from the feminist struggle, her poetry celebrates women's strength and possibilities.

Compares poetry from writers Adrienne Rich and Paulo Friere. Describes how each writer expresses views on transporation and society. Explores differences in argument and literary styles.