Adrienne Cecile Rich(May 16, 1929 March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist . She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."
Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by the senior poet for the ; he went on to write the introduction to the published volume.
Life and career Early lifeAdrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland , the older of two sisters. Her father, the renowned pathologist Pathology at Ibsen , Blake , Keats , , and . Her father was ambitious for Adrienne and "planned to create a prodigy." Adrienne Rich and her younger sister were home schooled by their mother until Adrienne began public education in the fourth grade. The poems Sources and After Dark document her relationship with her father, describing how she worked hard to fulfill her parents' ambitions for her moving into a world in which she was expected to excel.
Early career: 1953 1975 Later life: 1976 2012 Selected awards and honours Rich's works Nonfiction books Poetry collections See also ReferencesNelson, Cary, editor. Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Oxford University Press. 2000.
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Langdell, Cheri Colby (2004). Adrienne Rich : the moment of change. Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated. p. 20. ISBN 9780313316050 .
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. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved March 29 2012.
American Academy of Arts and Letter Award Winners. Retrieved Dec 12 2011.
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Writers and Editors War Tax Protest January 30, 1968 New York Post
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Aldrich and Wotherspoon (2000) Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Vol 2. Routledge p352
Langdell, Cheri Colby (2004) Adrienne Rich: the moment of change. p159 Praeger Publishers
Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide. p295 Greenwood Press
. Cornell University. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
(1994). The Transsexual Empire (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. pp. 113. ISBN 9780807762721 .
Rich, Adrienne (2001). Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 138 144.
. English.illinois.edu. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
Fellow Program. Retrieved Dec 12, 2011.
Poetry Foundation.
In a Protest, Poet Rejects Arts Medal The New York Times article July 11, 1997. Accessed 10 February 2010
Rich, Adrienne (2001). Adrienne Rich. ed. Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 95 105.
Los Angeles Times. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
. The Daily Telegraph. 29 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11. (With acceptance speech by Rich and essay by Evie Shockley from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11. (With acceptance speech by Rich and introduction by Mark Doty.)
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