Excellent magnetic-tape video of Adrienne Rich reading on the West Coast recently became available online, among many recordings from the Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco State reading took place in April 1974 (less than a week after Rich accepted the National Book Award for Diving into the…
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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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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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