
Title:
Selected poems, 1950-2012
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2018
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Physical Description:
xxiii, 421 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780393355116
Abstract:
"Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Rich's published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known work--the clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of the 1970s, including "Diving into the Wreck," "Planetarium," and "The Phenomenology of Anger"--And offers the full range of her evolution as a poet. From poems leading up to her feminist breakthrough through bold later work such as "North American Time" and "Calle Visión," Selected Poems celebrates Rich's prophetic vision as well as the inventiveness that shaped her enduring art."--Publisher's description
Contents:
From A Change of World (1951) -- Storm Warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's Tigers -- Air Without Incense -- Afterward -- The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room -- An Unsaid Word -- At a Bach Concert The Springboard -- For the Conjunction of Two Planets -- From The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems (1955) -- Living in Sin -- The Snow Queen -- A Walk by the Charles -- The Middle-Aged -- The Diamond Cutters -- From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 (1963) -- The Knight -- September 21 -- Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law -- Antinous: The Diaries -- The Afterwake -- A Marriage in the 'Sixties -- Ghost of a Chance -- Prospective Immigrants Please Note -- The Roofwalker -- From Necessities of Life: Poems 1962-1965 (1966) -- Necessities of Life -- In the Woods -- The Corpse-Plant -- The Trees -- Like This Together -- After Dark -- "I Am in Danger-Sir-" -- Not Like That -- The Knot -- Moth Hour -- Focus -- Face to Face -- From Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968 (1969) -- Orion -- Holding Out -- In the Evening -- 5:30 A.M. -- The Key -- Abnegation -- To Frantz Farron -- On Edges -- Nightbreak -- Leaflets -- from Ghazals (Homage to Ghalib): 7/13/68, 7/14/68 (II), 7/24/68 (II), 7/26/68 (I), 8/8/68 (II) -- From The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 (1971) -- Planetarium -- The Burning of Paper Instead of Children -- I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus -- The Blue Ghazals -- Our Whole Life -- The Stelae -- The Will to Change -- Images for Godard -- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning from Shooting Script: I, 1; II, 8, 13, 14 -- From Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973) -- Trying to Talk with a Man -- When We Dead Awaken -- Waking in the Dark -- Incipience -- The Stranger -- Song -- Diving into the Wreck -- The Phenomenology of Anger -- Merced -- Living in the Cave -- For the Dead -- From a Survivor -- From Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (1975) -- From an Old House in America -- The Fact of a Doorframe -- From The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (1978) -- Power -- Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev -- Splittings -- To a Poet -- Cartographies of Silence -- Twenty-One Love Poems -- A Woman Dead in Her Forties -- from Natural Resources: 4, 5, 6, 13, 14 -- Transcendental Etude -- From A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1981) -- Integrity -- Transit -- For Memory -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- from The Spirit of Place: III, V -- From Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986) -- Sources -- North American Time -- Dreams Before Waking -- Upcountry -- Poetry: I -- Poetry: III -- Yorn Kippur 1984 -- from Contradictions: Tracking Poems: 3, 6, 7, 15, 16, 18, 26, 28, 29 -- From Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989) -- Solfeggietto -- Delta -- 6/21 -- Dreamwood -- Living Memory -- From An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991) -- An Atlas of the Difficult World -- from Eastern War Time: 10 -- Tattered Kaddish -- Darklight -- Final Notations -- From Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (1995) -- What Kind of Times Are These -- In Those Years -- Calle Vision -- Take -- Late Ghazal -- From Pierced Darkness -- From Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (1999) -- The Art of Translation -- For an Anniversary -- Midnight Salvage -- Shattered Head -- Camino Real -- Seven Skins -- From Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (2001) -- Regardless -- Fox -- Noctilucent Clouds -- If Your Name Is on the List -- Terza Rima -- Rauschenberg's Bed -- Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot -- From The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (2004) -- Centaur's Requiem -- Equinox -- Tell Me -- The School Among the Ruins -- This evening let's -- The Eye -- There Is No One Story and One Story Only -- Transparencies -- Memorize This -- Screen Door -- From Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006 (2007) -- Calibrations -- Skeleton Key -- Behind the Motel -- Archaic -- Long After Stevens Hubble Photographs: After Sappho -- Director's Notes -- Ever, Again -- Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth -- From Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 (2011) -- Waiting for Rain, for Music -- Reading the Iliad (As If) for the First Time -- Turbulence -- Tonight No Poetry Will Serve -- Axel Avakar: -- Axel Avakar -- Axel: Backstory -- Axel, in thunder -- I was there, Axel -- Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house -- Ballade of the Poverties -- Emergency Clinic -- You, Again -- Powers of Recuperation -- From Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971-2012 (2013) -- Itinerary -- Tracings -- Endpapers -- Adrienne Rich's Notes on the Poems.
Genre:
Language:
English