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‘Essential Essays’ Show Adrienne Rich’s Vulnerable, Conflicted Sides

This collection brings together a sampling of the poet’s influential criticism, personal accounts and public statements.

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich https://amzn.to/2MX02cw

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“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”  And so she did. New from Norton and the late poet and essayist, Adrienne Rich, Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry.

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‘Essential Essays,’ by Adrienne Rich

When Adrienne Rich gave the speech "What Does a Woman Need to Know?" to the hopeful graduates of Smith College in 1979, she told the crowd of 22-year-old girls the truth. That they were entering a world where women are unequal citizens and seen as sexual prey. That they would be underpaid in their professional lives and often undervalued in their personal ones. That they would be subject to silences and empty spaces within language itself. And that power - a highly charged word for women - would be withheld from them, especially Transforming Power: "to be able, to have the potential, to possess and use one's energy of creation.

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich https://amzn.to/2MX02cw