Of Woman Born was first published in 1976. Adrienne Rich returned to it in 1986 when it came out in a 10th Anniversary edition and wrote a new introduction looking critically at her own earlier choices and omissions as author, and updating footnotes to reflect newer scholarship. This year, W.W. Norton has published a new…
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Portland’s Literary Arts recently posted a recording of Adrienne Rich reading and speaking at an event in the Poetry Downtown series, from March 2006. The recording includes introductory remarks by Judith Barrington, who also wrote a remembrance of the reading, posted here.
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An MP3 of Adrienne Rich in a December 2006 appearance, speaking and reading poetry at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. “Poetry, I believe, doesn’t lie down comfortably with symbols, with ‘this stands for that,’ with the boundedness of symbolic thinking. Poetry’s energy is in metaphor. And in metaphor boundaries are broken, one thing…
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If you have taken this rubble for my past raking through it for fragments you could sell know that I long ago moved on deeper into the heart of the matter If you think that you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed…
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Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750—1848) astronomer, sister of William; and others. A woman in the shape of a monster a monster in the shape of a woman the skies are full of them a woman ‘in the snow among the Clocks and instruments or measuring the ground with poles’ in her 98…
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Adrienne Rich 