Adrienne Rich
Biographic Data
| ID | 192792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne Rich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Rich |
| SIGNATURE | RICH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1951-1180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 641 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ballade of the Poverties
A classic poem by Adrienne Rich, reprinted
Of Woman Born
Zwangsheterosexualität und lesbische Existenz
In diesem 1983 erstmals in deutscher Sprache herausgegebenen und fur die deutsche Lesbenbewegung einflussreichen Text fuhrt Adrienne Rich die Konzepte Zwangsheterosexualitat, Mannerherrschaft / mannliche Macht, lesbisches Kontinuum und Frauenidentifikation aus. Rich pladiert dafur, das Vorurteil naturlicher, selbstverstandlicher Heterosexualitat als politische Institution zum Nutzen mannlicher Macht uber Frauen anzuerkennen und zu untersuchen. Da…
Does poetry play a role in social change
Liberté
Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and five nonfiction prose books, including A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society (Norton). Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 was published in 2011.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
You, Again
Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and five nonfiction prose books, the most recent being A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society (Norton). She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a P…
Ballad of the Poverties
Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and five nonfiction prose books, the most recent being A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society (Norton). She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a P…
Emergency Clinic
Adrienne Rich's most recent book is Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006. A selection of her essays, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, appeared in 2003. She edited Muriel Rukeyser's Selected Poems for the Library of America. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, among other awards.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website,…
The School Among the Ruins
A poem by Adrienne RichThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Director's Notes
Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and four nonfiction prose books. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement AwardThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Five O'clock, January 2003
A poem by Adrienne RichThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
I want to say a little about the way "Compulsory Heterosexuality" was originally conceived and the context in which we are now living. It was written in part to challenge the erasure of lesbian existence from so much of scholarly feminist literature, an erasure which I felt (and feel) to be not just anti-lesbian, but anti-feminist in its consequences, and to distort the experience of heterosexual women as well. It was not written to widen divisio…
Credo of a Passionate Skeptic
Recently I collected a number of my prose writings for a forthcoming volume. Rereading them, it struck me that for some readers, the earlier pieces might seem to belong to a bygone era—twenty to thirty years ago. I chose to include them as background, indicating certain directions in my thinking. A burgeoning women's movement in the 1970s and early 1980s incited and provided the occasions for them, created their ecology. But, as I suggested in "N…
Four Poems
Adrienne Rich is the author, most recently, of Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999). These four poems were read by Ms. Rich at Monthly Review's fiftieth anniversary dinner in New York City on May 7, 1999. They are reprinted here with the kind permission of W.W. Norton.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of thi…
Contradictions
Jews
Two Excerpts from an Atlas of the Difficult World
For Ethel Rosenberg
The Aesthetics of Power
Blood, Bread, and Poetry
Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich explores in this collection the intricacies of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a U.S. citizen, both at this time of her life and through the lens of her past
Dien Bien Phu
No abstract available for this article
"Comment on Friedman's "'I Go Where I Love
For Julia in Nebraska
Excavating "Those Dim Minoan Regions"
An Interview with Audre Lorde
Snapshots of a daughter-in-law
The stranger
Women's studies—renaissance or revolution?”
V
The Family Bed
On lies, secrets, and silence
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
An Interview with Audre Lorde
Excavating "Those Dim Minoan Regions"
"Comment on Friedman's "'I Go Where I Love
For Julia in Nebraska
Blood, Bread, and Poetry
Through a wide range of poetic pieces, Adrienne Rich explores in this collection the intricacies of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a U.S. citizen, both at this time of her life and through the lens of her past
Dien Bien Phu
No abstract available for this article
The Aesthetics of Power
For Ethel Rosenberg
Jews
Two Excerpts from an Atlas of the Difficult World
Contradictions
Four Poems
Adrienne Rich is the author, most recently, of Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999). These four poems were read by Ms. Rich at Monthly Review's fiftieth anniversary dinner in New York City on May 7, 1999. They are reprinted here with the kind permission of W.W. Norton.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of thi…
Credo of a Passionate Skeptic
Recently I collected a number of my prose writings for a forthcoming volume. Rereading them, it struck me that for some readers, the earlier pieces might seem to belong to a bygone era—twenty to thirty years ago. I chose to include them as background, indicating certain directions in my thinking. A burgeoning women's movement in the 1970s and early 1980s incited and provided the occasions for them, created their ecology. But, as I suggested in "N…
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
I want to say a little about the way "Compulsory Heterosexuality" was originally conceived and the context in which we are now living. It was written in part to challenge the erasure of lesbian existence from so much of scholarly feminist literature, an erasure which I felt (and feel) to be not just anti-lesbian, but anti-feminist in its consequences, and to distort the experience of heterosexual women as well. It was not written to widen divisio…
Five O'clock, January 2003
A poem by Adrienne RichThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The School Among the Ruins
A poem by Adrienne RichThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Director's Notes
Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and four nonfiction prose books. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement AwardThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Emergency Clinic
Adrienne Rich's most recent book is Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006. A selection of her essays, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, appeared in 2003. She edited Muriel Rukeyser's Selected Poems for the Library of America. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, among other awards.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website,…
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