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Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Rich’s essays unite the political, personal, and poetical like no other.
Essential Essays is edited and includes an introduction by leading feminist scholar, literary critic, and poet Sandra M. Gilbert. Emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement, the essays selected here range from the 1960's to 2008. The volume contains one of Rich’s earliest essays,“When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” which discusses the need for female self-definition, along with excerpts from her ambitious, ground-breaking Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. As the New York Times wrote, Rich “brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse,” as evidenced in her 1980 essay, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.”
Also among these insightful and forward-thinking works are: “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity”; excerpts from What Is Found There, about the need to reexamine the literary canon; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts”; “Poetry and the Forgotten Future”; and other writings that profoundly shaped second-wave feminism, each balanced by Rich’s signature blend of research, theory, and self-reflection.
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Adrienne Rich
Estimated Reading Time: 9 hrs. 58 min.Page Number: 352Publication Date: 2018Publisher: W.W. Norton & CompanyISBN: 9780393652369Country: United States of AmericaLanguage: EnglishFormat: Ciltli
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Adrienne RichYazar · 5 books
Adrienne Rich (d. 16 Mayıs 1929 Baltimore, Maryland, - ö. 27 Mart 2012 Santa Cruz), ABD'li şair. "20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısının en çok okunan ve en nüfuzlu şairlerinden biri" olarak nitelendirilmiştir.
1951'de ilk şiir dizisi "A Change of World"' yayımlayarak "Yale Younger Poets Prize" ("Yale Genç Şairler Ödülü")'nü kazandı. 1953'te ekonomist Alfred Conrad ile evlendi. Üç çocuk sahibi oldu ve 1966'da New York'a taşındılar. Burada iken Rich, beyaz olmayan ve fakir altyapılardan çocukları eğitti. Zaten sosyal reformlar ve ırkçılığa karşı harekete geçmiş Rich, James Baldwin ve Simone de Beauvoir eserlerini okuyup feminizm ile ilgilenmeyi başladı. 1976'dan beri Michelle Cliff ile yaşamaktadır. En çok tanınan denemelerinden biri Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence ("Zorunlu Heteroseksüellik ile Lezbiyen Varoluşu"; 1980), onun "lezbiyen sürekliliği" kuramını anlatır.
