An Atlas of the Difficult World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: History, North America or North Americans, Suffering, United States or Americans, Prisons, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nature, Social issues, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, New England, California, West, U.S., Human race, Spiritual life or spirituality, Beauty, Native Americans or American Indians, Immigration or emigration, Violence, Feminism, Women’s issues, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Criticism, Death or dying, Lifestyles, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, Environment or environmental health, Morality or morals, Maps, Holocaust
Adrienne Rich published her first book of poetry in 1951, when W. H. Auden selected A Change of World for the Yale Younger Poets Award. Since that first publication, Rich has published fourteen volumes of poetry and a number of prose volumes, including the ground-breaking feminist work Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976). Over her forty-year career, Rich’s critical theories have continued to evolve and her poetry to deepen and amaze by its passion and political insight. Rejecting formalism and the obscurity of much modernist poetry, Rich has...
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