Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

by Rich, Adrienne; Gelpi, Albert; Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth

• ISBN13: 9780393961478
• ISBN10: 0393961478
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and prose in recent years. The result is a judiciously edited, sensibly annotated volume ideally suited for classroom study of one of our most distinguished working writers.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Poems	3	(162)
From A Change of World (1951)	3	(3)
Storm Warnings	3	(1)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	4	(1)
Afterward	4	(1)
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room	4	(1)
An Unsaid Word	5	(1)
From The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems (1955)	6	(2)
Living in Sin	6	(1)
The Diamond Cutters	6	(2)
From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 (1963)	8	(10)
The Knight	8	(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	9	(4)
Antinoüs: The Diaries	13	(1)
A Marriage in the 'Sixties	14	(1)
The Roofwalker	15	(1)
Ghost of a Chance	16	(1)
Prospective Immigrants Please Note	17	(1)
From Necessities of Life: Poems 1962-1965 (1966)	18	(11)
Necessities of Life	18	(2)
In the Woods	20	(1)
The Trees	21	(1)
Like This Together	22	(2)
After Dark	24	(2)
"I Am in Danger--Sir--"	26	(1)
Focus	27	(1)
Face to Face	28	(1)
From Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968 (1969)	29	(9)
Orion	29	(1)
The Demon Lover	30	(3)
5:30 A.M.	33	(1)
Implosions	34	(1)
On Edges	35	(1)
Nightbreak	35	(3)
From The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 (1971)	38	(10)
Planetarium	38	(2)
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children	40	(3)
I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus	43	(1)
Our Whole Life	43	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	44	(1)
Shooting Script (11/69-7/70): 1, 8, 13, 14	45	(3)
From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973)	48	(13)
Trying to Talk with a Man	48	(1)
Waking in the Dark	49	(3)
The Stranger	52	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	53	(2)
The Phenomenology of Anger	55	(4)
From a Survivor	59	(1)
For the Dead	60	(1)
From Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1975)	61	(12)
Re-forming the Crystal	61	(1)
The Fact of a Doorframe	62	(1)
From an Old House in America	63	(10)
From The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (1978)	73	(18)
Power	73	(1)
Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev	74	(2)
Splittings	76	(1)
Twenty-One Love Poems	77	(9)
Transcendental Etude	86	(5)
From A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1981)	91	(10)
Integrity	91	(1)
Transit	92	(1)
For Memory	93	(2)
For Ethel Rosenberg	95	(4)
The Spirit of Place: v	99	(1)
Turning the Wheel: 8	100	(1)
From Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986)	101	(30)
Sources	101	(13)
North American Time	114	(4)
Upcountry	118	(1)
In the Wake of Home	119	(4)
Poetry: I	123	(1)
Poetry: III	123	(1)
Yom Kippur 1984	124	(3)
Contradictions: Tracking Poems: 3, 6, 7, 18, 26, 28, 29	127	(4)
From Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989)	131	(11)
Solfeggietto	131	(2)
The Desert as Garden of Paradise: 1, 4, 9, 11	133	(2)
Delta	135	(1)
6/21	135	(1)
Dreamwood	136	(1)
Living Memory	136	(5)
Turning: 5	141	(1)
From An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991)	142	(23)
An Atlas of the Difficult World	142	(16)
Eastern War Time: 10	158	(1)
Tattered Kaddish	159	(1)
Darklight: II	160	(1)
Final Notations	160	(5)
Prose	165	(112)
[Poetry and Experience: Statement at a Poetry Reading] (1964)	165	(1)
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971)	166	(11)
Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson (1975)	177	(18)
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying (1975)	195	(8)
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)	203	(21)
Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity (1982)	224	(15)
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: The Location of the Poet (1984)	239	(13)
The Genesis of "Yom Kippur 1984" (1987)	252	(6)
Adrienne Rich: An Interview with David Montenegro (1991)	258	(15)
Swarthmore College Commencement: June 1, 1992	273	(4)
Reviews and Criticism	277	(147)
W. H. Auden
Foreword to A Change of World	277	(2)
John Ashbery
Tradition and Talent	279	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Review of Diving into the Wreck	280	(2)
Albert Gelpi
Adrienne Rich: The Poetics of Change	282	(17)
Helen Vendler
Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds	299	(11)
Judith McDaniel
"Reconstituting the World": The Poetry and Vision of Adrienne Rich	310	(12)
Olga Broumas
Review of The Dream of a Common Language	322	(7)
Adrian Oktenberg
"Disloyal to Civilization": The Twenty-One Love Poems of Adrienne Rich	329	(13)
Charles Altieri
Self-Reflection as Action: The Recent Work of Adrienne Rich	342	(15)
Terrence Des Pres
Adrienne Rich, North America East	357	(12)
Willard Spiegelman
"Driving to the Limits of the City of Words": The Poetry of Adrienne Rich	369	(28)
Albert Gelpi
The Poetics of Recovery: A Reading of Adrienne Rich's Sources	397	(5)
Joanne Feit Diehl
"Of Woman Born": Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Sublime	402	(22)
Adrienne Rich: A Chronology	424	(3)
Selected Bibliography	427	(4)
Index	431