Now out in a new paperback edition

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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Forthcoming prose collection

W.W. Norton has announced an August 2018 pub date for Essential Essays: Culture Politics & the Art of Poetry, a selection of Adrienne Rich’s prose, edited by Sandra M. Gilbert. The volume includes excerpts from Of Woman Born, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry & Politics, and essays on Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, and Muriel Rukeyser, as…

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Women’s Studies special issue on Adrienne Rich

The issue published on line in late December 2017 includes an introduction and six scholarly articles, a section of  appreciations by eight scholars, and four review articles. Author names and article titles in the following table of contents are linked to the publisher Taylor & Francis Online. Jeannette E. Riley, Meredith Benjamin & Maggie Rehm: Introduction, pp. 607-609 Alexandra…

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