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Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

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A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.

Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.

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Editorial Reviews

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"A peerless pleasure."
― New York Times

"Rich offers a powerful reminder of the continuous self-reflection required to fight ignorance―one's own and others'.… A profound and beautiful call to think, and feel, and fight."
― New York Times Book Review

"[Essential Essays] shows us a woman in full command of her intellect and art.… [Rich] is more relevant than ever."
― San Francisco Chronicle

"Reading [Essential Essays], one is struck by the breadth of Rich’s research, the force of her arguments, the elegance and honesty of her personal writing."
― Bookforum

"Feminist poet and literary critic Gilbert skillfully selects examples that convey the considerable breadth of Rich’s purview as an essayist and exhibit her characteristic strategy of rejecting surface explanations and turning experience around in the light of subjective truth. Approachable, effective excerpts afford breathtaking encounters with genius."
― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Vibrant.… [Rich’s] essays, always provocative, clear, and packed with insights, are wise, refreshingly humane, and well worth reading."
― Publishers Weekly

"An excellent guide to living for anyone invested in the feminist struggle today, or the struggle for self-determination and equality more broadly."
― Pacific Standard

"This collection refreshes an esteemed opinion of Rich’s invaluable contributions to poetry and feminist thought."
― New York Journal of Books

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.

Sandra M. Gilbert (1936―2024) was a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 20, 2019
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393355136
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393355130
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #593,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars (66)

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    Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) is an American poet, writer, feminist thinker, and activist in progressive causes. In a career spanning seven decades she wrote and published two dozen volumes of poetry and over a half-dozen of prose. Rich's poetry includes the collections Diving Into the Wreck, The Dream of a Common Language, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, An Atlas of the Difficult World, The School Among the Ruins, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth. Her prose work includes the collections On Lies, Secrets, & Silence; Blood, Bread, & Poetry; an influential essay, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and Of Woman Born, a scholarly examination of motherhood as a socio-historic construct. She received the National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for Diving Into the Wreck, and was a finalist an additional three times, in 1956, 1967, and 1991. Other honors include a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1994, the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award, and the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 1997 she turned down the National Medal for the Arts to protest the growing concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands, writing to the NEA that "anyone familiar with my work from the early Sixties on knows that I believe in art's social presence—as breaker of official silences, as voice for those whose voices are disregarded, and as a human birthright."

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