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Adrienne Rich

Collected Poems

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The tigers in the panel that she made

    Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    W. H. Auden selected Rich’s volume and brought to the world’s attention Rich’s first thorny questions, embedded in lyrics, addressing a culture’s disengagement with its embattled selves.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Rich began her public poetic career as the 1951 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize for her first collection, A Change of World.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    abandoned by humanity compounded by the experience of not being heard.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    profound exploration of ethical loneliness.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    By my late twenties, the early 1990s, I was in graduate school at Columbia University and came across Rich’s recently published An Atlas of the Difficult World.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The Uses Of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” an essay published in 1981, “I cannot hide my anger to spare your guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    As self-identified lesbian feminists, they openly negotiated the difficulties of their very different racial and economic realities.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    As a nineteen-year-old, I read in both Rich and Baldwin a twinned dissatisfaction with systems invested in a single, dominant, oppressive narrative. My initial understanding of feminism and racism came from these two writers in the same weeks and months.
  • Alexandra Lisogorhas quoted3 years ago
    I am a woman in the prime of life
    driving her dead poet in a black Rolls-Royce
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