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Adrienne Rich - Bibliography

Bibliography

PRIMARY SOURCES

POETRY

A Change of World (Yale UP, 1951)

The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems (Harper, 1955)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962 (Harper, 1963; rev. ed., Norton, 1967)

Necessities of Life (Norton, 1966)

Leaflets: Poems, 1965-1968 (Norton, 1969)

The Will to Change: Poems, 1968-1970 (Norton, 1971)

Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972 (Norton, 1973)

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974 (Norton, 1974)

Twenty-One Love Poems (Effie's Press, 1977)

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977 (Norton, 1978)

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems, 19 78- 1981 (Norton, 1981)

Sources (Heyeck Press, 1983)

The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950- 1984 (Norton, 1984)

Your Native Land, Your Life (Norton, 1986)

Time's Power: Poems, 1985-1988 (Norton, 1988)

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991 (Norton, 1991)

Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Norton, 1993)

Dark Fields of the Republic, 1991-1995 (Norton, 1995)

MISCELLANEOUS

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (Norton, 1976, rev. ed., 1986)

On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966- 1978 (Norton, 1979)

Blood, Bread and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1986 (Norton, 1986)

What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Norton, 1993)

SECONDARY SOURCES

Alteri, Charles. "Self-Reflection as Action: The Recent Work of Adrienne Rich." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism / selected and edited by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 342-357.

---. Self and sensibility in contemporary American poetry. NY: Cambridge UP, 1984. PS325 .A38

Ashbery, John. "Tradition and Talent." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 279-280.

Atwood, Margaret. "Review of Diving into the Wreck." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism / selected and edited by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 280-282.

Auden, W. H. "Foreword to A Change of World." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 277-279.

--- "Foreword to A Change of World." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 277-279.

Caris, Jane. "Body as Metaphor in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Pleiades 16.2 (Sprg 1996): 105-15.

Christ, Carol. Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest. "Homesick for a Woman, for Ourselves: Adrienne Rich." Boston: Beacon Press, 1980. 75-96.

Cooper, Jane R. ed. Reading Adrienne Rich: reviews and re-visions, 1951-81. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1984. PS3535 .I233 Z87

Diehl, Joanne Feit. "'Of Woman Born': Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Sublime," in Women Poets and the American Sublime: Women Poets and the American Sublime (Indiana Univ. Press, 1990)

Eckstein, Barbara. "Iconicity, Immersion and Otherness: The Hegelian 'Dive' of J. M. Coetzee and Adrienne Rich." Mosaic 29.1 (Mar 1996): 57-77.

Erickson, Peter. "Singing America: From Walt Whitman to Adrienne Rich." Kenyon Review 17.1 (Wint 1995): 103-19.

Estrin, Barbara L. "Space-Off and Voice-Over: Adrienne Rich and Wallace Stevens." Women's Studies 25.1 (Nov 1995): 23-46.

Flowers, Betty S. "Wrestling with the Mother and the Father: 'His' and 'Her' in Adrienne Rich." Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life. Ed. Nancy O. Nelson. Denton: U of North Texas P, 1995. 54-63.

---. "The 'I' in Adrienne Rich: Individuation and the Androgyne Archetype." Theory and Practice of Feminist Literary Criticism. Eds. Gabriela Mora and Karen S. Van Hooft. Ypsilanti, MI : Bilingual, 1982. 14-35.

Gelpi, Aberti. "Adrienne Rich: The Poetics of Change." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 282-299.

Gilbert, Roger. "Framing Water: Historical Knowledge in Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich." Twentieth Century Literature 43.2 (Sumr 1997): 144-61.

Greenwald, Elissa. "The Dream of a Common Language: Vietnam Poetry as Reformation of Language and Feeling in the Poems of Adrienne Rich." Journal of American Culture 16.3 (Fall 1993): 97-102.

Herzog, Anne. "Adrienne Rich and the Discourse of Decolonization." Centennial Review 33.3 (Sumr 1989): 258-277.

Keyes, Claire. The aesthetics of power: the poetry of Adrienne Rich. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1986. PS3535 .I233 Z73

Klein, Karen W. "Adrienne Rich: 'Stuck to Earth.'" Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Eds. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. Newark, DE : U of Delaware P, 1997. 194-208.

Lindroth, James. "Tropes of Discovery: Adrienne Rich and Diving into the Wreck." CEA Critic 47.3 (Sprg 1985): 69-78.

Martin, Wendy. An American triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984. PS310 .F45 M3

Matson, Suzanne. "Talking to Our Father: The Political and Mythical Appropriations of Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds." American Poetry Review 18.6 (Nov-Dec 1989): 35-41.

McCorkle, James. "Adrienne Rich: A Common Language of Self-Definition." Notes on Modern American Literature 9.3 (Wint 1985): Item 15.

McGuirk, Kevin. "Philoctetes Radicalized: 'Twenty-One Love Poems' and the Lyric Career of Adrienne Rich." Contemporary Literature 34.1 (Sprg 1993): 61-87.

Monroe, Jonathan. "Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? "Mischiling and Métis: Common and Uncommon Languages in Adrienne Rich and Aimé Césaire." London: Duke U.P., 1990.

Ratcliffe, Krista. Anglo-American feminist challenges to the rhetorical traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

Shreiber, Maeera. "'Where Are We Moored?': Adrienne Rich, Women's Mourning, and the Limits of Lament." Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry. Eds. Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997. 301-17.

Sielke, Sabine. "Snapshots of Marriage, Snares of Mimicry, Snarls of Motherhood: Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich." Sagetrieb 6.3 (Wint 1987): 79-97.

Slowick, Mary. "The Friction of the Mind: The Early Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Massachusetts Review 25.1 (Sprg 1984): 142-160.

Spender, Dale. Women of ideas and what men have done to them: from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. HQ1206 .S68

Stein, Kevin. Private Poets, Worldly Acts. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996.

Stimpson, Catharine. "Adrienne Rich and Lesbian/Feminist Poetry." Parnassus 12-13.2-1 (Sprg-Wint 1985): 249-268.

Strine, Mary S. "The Politics of Asking Women's Questions: Voice and Value in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Text and Performance Quarterly 9.1 (Jan 1989): 24-41.

Templeton, Alice. The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich’s Feminist Poetics. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Vendler, Helen. "Mapping the Air - Adrienne Rich and Jorie Graham." Soul Says: On Recent Poetry. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995. Chapter 19 (212-234)

Walker, Jeffrey A. "Remapping Freudian America: Adrienne Rich and the Adult Son." North Dakota Quarterly 62.3 (Sumr 1994-95): 76-93.

Werner, Craig H. Adrienne Rich: the poet and her critics. Chicago: American Library Association, 1988. PS3535 .I233 Z93

Zimmerman, Lee. "An Eye for an I: Emerson and Some 'True' Poems of Robinson Jeffers, William Everson, Robert Penn Warren, and Adrienne Rich." Contemporary Literature 33.4 (Wint 1992): 645-64.