![]() ![]() Rich’s poetry is loved for its ferocious politics, particularly its vocal feminism and celebration of lesbian eros, as well as its stances again poverty, war, racism, and other violences. Our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, This isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled Here she is reading “What Kind of Times Are These”: ![]() She would go on to write more than twenty books of poetry, including landmark collections like Diving into the Wreck and The Dream of a Common Language, and eight books of essays. ![]() Farrar (co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Muriel Rukeyser, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker, and our own James Agee. Auden as a winner in the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition - other winners, over the years, have included such luminaries as John C. ![]() She died in 2012.īorn in 1929, Rich first rose to prominence in 1951, when her manuscript A Change of World was selected by W.H. The world is a crazy medley of cymbals and cuckoo-clock noises, and it’s an excellent moment to reach for ballast to the writing of Adrienne Rich, who would have turned eighty-eight today. Happy eighty-eighth birthday of Adrienne Rich, everybody Happy eighty-eighth birthday of Adrienne Rich, everybody » MobyLives ![]()
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