Rich, Adrienne (Vol. 3) - Rich, Adrienne 1929–
Rich, Adrienne 1929–
Ms. Rich is an award-winning American poet, critic, and translator. Citing the precise diction and explosive energy of her poems, critics now consider her one of our most exciting and original developing poets. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Adrienne Rich has developed slowly and unspectacularly to become one of the best poets in America. Her Necessities of Life contains twenty-five new poems of her own, plus some remarkable translations from the Dutch. She is, first of all, a poet of detail, perfect in bringing to light the contents of the drawers of memory, the "dream photographs." There is no clutter; the details are always being used—"A million insects die every twilight, / no one even finds their corpses." Despite all our talk about the "memory-laden past" and the "future of dreams," the present is when we really deceive ourselves. And today is within Miss Rich's range; she writes...
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