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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977
Published in Hardcover by W. W. Norton & Company (1978)
Author: Adrienne Rich
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Read this if you don't like poetry.
Adrienne Rich is a poet for everyone - especially those who say they don't like poetry - and the Dream of a Common Language is her most fascinating and accessible collection to date. Think poetry is boring, pretentious or hackneyed? Open up to "Love Poems" and find 32 sultry and pain-stakingly honest celebrations of lesbian love and urban survival. Rich has recently been receiving the wide recognition she deserves, and she will perhaps be the one to convince Americans to open their poetry books again.

This book makes even pain beautiful.
In The Dream of a Common Language, the poetry of Adrienne Rich reaches a realm of pure beauty. Rich cuts away the verbal excesses sometimes found in her other works and leaves the vibrant words to stand alone in their powerful simplicity. The reader finds herself emerged in the common language of love, pain, hope, and longing. Only when the final poem has been read, is she able to emerge, gasping, and view the world through vision forever altered by having seen through the eyes of Adrienne Rich


A Muriel Rukeyser Reader
Published in Hardcover by W.W. Norton & Company (1900)
Authors: Jan Heller Levi, Adrienne Cecile Rich, and Muriel Rukeyser
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A gem
A thinker's book. Wonderful to read Rukeyser wrestle with and explain life, art, thought. She is by turns poet, biographer, essayist and character. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Her art and criticism explore the same themes. The effect is surprisingly consistent in a book comprised of several incomplete selections. If you have any doubts, find a poem or two of hers and try it on for size (Gauley Bridge, for example). If you're fascinated, try this volume. Here's a sample. Rukeyser on poetry (from The Life of Poetry): "A first-rate scientist, or a fine prose writer, is able to say, 'How can I know a good poem? I can tell an honest piece of work in my own field from a phony piece of work, but how can I tell a fine poem from a phony poem? And what has to be said to such a question is that these are people who cannot trust their emotional reactions, their total reactions."

Excellent book
Muriel Rukeyser was certainly a terrific and fascinating poet. These are strange and striking creations, and originality is present on every page. I don't know how she got stuck with Adrienne Rich as her introducer, but one may skip that and go on to a memorable experience. Rukeyser was a true original.


Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue (Apr Honickman 1st Book Award)
Published in Hardcover by American Poetry Review (2001)
Authors: Ed Pavlic and Adrienne Cecile Rich
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what an amazing surprise - what an amazing talent
jazz poets are a dime a dozen, so when I picked up this slim volume of poetry I had dim hopes. WOw, what a surprise; what verse and verve. Ed Pavlic's work is without a doubt the most profound, original, spirited and unpredictable in the poetry world today. Far beyond jazz, he lifts the word into that rare sphere where music and verse meet. Pass the word; this is a poet to watch and read and tell your friends about.

Jazz and the Written Word!
An excellent mixture of Jazz Rhythms and the spoken word. A true mixture of Art, Music,Emotion, and articulation. A must have for anyone who loves Poetry!


An American Triptych : Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich
Published in Paperback by Univ of North Carolina Pr (1984)
Author: Wendy Martin
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A must for anyone interested
This book is a must for anyone interested in the 3 title poets. Wendy Martin does an excellent job in her analysis of these great female poets. She provides necessary backgound information along with correlative interpretation and history of the authors' works. This book is not only a informative and helpful tool, but it is an interesting read.


Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970
Published in Hardcover by W.W. Norton & Company (1993)
Author: Adrienne Rich
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Amazing, Well written and even somewhat obscure
Adrienne Rich was one of the first feminist writers of her time. After her husbands death in 1970, she went on as angry young woman who wasn't about to let life grind her down. This collection of poetry showcases some of her best work ever, and it well worth the read.


Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974
Published in Paperback by W. W. Norton & Company (1975)
Author: Adrienne Rich
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is Very Rich

If offered the choice between money and poetry, I'd have to know two things:

How much money?
and
Who's poetry?

Through the first two-thirds of this collection, though occasionally spotting a treasure like "The Roofwalker" and "Trees" I struggle to recognize something I can't give up.
But in the selections from -The Will to Change- and -Diving into the Wreck- I am rest-assured. Rich's precise, scorching poems refuse to be forgotten and make me ask myself, feeling lucky: what if I had never read this?


Reading Adrienne Rich: Reviews and Re-Visions, 1951-81 (Under Discussion)
Published in Hardcover by University of Michigan Press (1984)
Author: Jane R. Cooper
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Wonderful
A book that challenges white male hegemonies. Highly recommended


Time's Power: Poems, 1985-1988
Published in Paperback by W.W. Norton & Company (1989)
Author: Adrienne Cecile Rich
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Quite a book
I recognize how difficult it is to produce political poetry, but there have been many attempts over the years, both serious and comical. Rich is so challenging of the assumptions of white _males that I simply delight in her work.


Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich
Published in Hardcover by Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) (1995)
Author: Krista Ratcliffe
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Superb criticism.
This important study is highly astute in its analysis--and very accessible. Ratcliffe is a first-rate thinker and writer.

A wonderful book
Three great geniuses are presented here. Where would we be without the unbelievably courageous Mary Daly? And Virginia Woolf is still an important early voice, especially as presented by Jane Marcus and other brilliant radicals. As for Rich, is there a more brilliant writer in "America" today? I think not.

magnificent
This book dares to include three of the very greatest writers of the century. Mary Daly is the incredibly courageous voice of contemporary radical feminism, Woolf is still valuable for her essays, and Adrienne Rich is a truly visionary poet who has changed the way contemporary discourse is conducted. A wonderful book.


The Works of Anne Bradstreet (The John Harvard Library)
Published in Paperback by Belknap Pr (1981)
Authors: Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley, Adrienne Rich, and Jeannie Hensley
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America's first great poet
How many people know that America's first great poet was a woman? Reading this collection of her works leaves one in little doubt about her greatness. The consummate artistry with which she expresses her inmost feelings pulls her to us, across the divide of three and a half centuries. Bradstreet's poetry shows that those Puritans, with their funny clothes, intolerant religion, and witch hunts experienced love, longing, and loss with much the same emotions that we do. Very highly recommended.

Anne Bradstreet's voice reaches across the centuries.
Three hundred and fifty years later, Anne Bradstreet still touches the heart and soul of her readers. On the Burning of My House still reminds us of where our priorities need to be, and on the importance of family. As a 10th great granddaughter, I realize that her works were written not only for herself and for her peers, but for the thousands of descendants in the world today. That is what makes truly great literature.

Anne Bradstreet helps us remember our country's roots
As an English major, I studied Anne Bradstreet in college and enjoyed her. I was thrilled to find out several years later she is my 9th great-grandmother! I love the spirituality and honesty of her writings. My favorite is "As Weary Pilgrim," as it captures the fatigue we sometimes feel in battling the adversities of life, and the hope of rest in a glorious afterlife. I love the cadence of the poem; it gives me a restful feeling. Reading colonial writings such as these, I'm remined of the foundation upon which our nation was built and the admirable character of some of these early Americans. It has become popular to "trash" the early Puritans. I am grateful for Anne Bradstreet's legacy of faith and courage, and the legacy of others who lived in her day.


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