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With a stirring new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today as when it was first written.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288163725685,"sku":"9780393541427","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393541427_ddfb5eba-933d-4d99-be1c-aba17805c28c.jpg?v=1786013595"},{"product_id":"9780393312850","title":"On Lies, Secrets, \u0026 Silence – Selected Prose Reissue (Paper)","description":"At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of  racism, history, and motherhood among others  called forth by Rich as \"part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is  political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which  refuses to be included or contained in the  culture of passivity.\"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288435077493,"sku":"9780393312850","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393312850_801552bd-f8d9-4021-9714-8ead2995b7b3.jpg?v=1786032907"},{"product_id":"9780393355130","title":"Essential Essays – Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry","description":"The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich’s essays unite the political, personal and poetical.   Included are Rich’s landmark essays “Motherhood as Experience and Institution”; “What Is Found There”; “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts” and “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence”. As Sandra Gilbert writes, “To re-read and to re-think Rich’s prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual...”","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288435503477,"sku":"9780393355130","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393355130_9fee8276-e1e7-4f4c-957f-67b154f403ec.jpg?v=1786013507"},{"product_id":"9780393355116","title":"Selected Poems 1950–2012","description":"Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems from the whole of Rich’s long and distinguished career. The volume encompasses her best-known work—the clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of the 1970s, including “Diving into the Wreck”, “Planetarium”, and “The Phenomenology of Anger”—and offers the full range of her evolution as a poet. From poems leading up to her feminist breakthrough through bold later work such as “North American Time” and “Calle Visión”, Selected Poems expresses the vital dialogue between Rich’s personal experiences and political views. As the editors explain in their introduction, Selected Poems presents the complete picture of Rich’s powerful and deeply moving poetry, as well as the evolution in poetic forms that trace her radical vision.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288440320373,"sku":"9780393355116","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393355116_12889ade-06c6-492a-9308-88c121f2e296.jpg?v=1786013506"},{"product_id":"9780393265439","title":"Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Prose – A Norton Critical Edition","description":"In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Adrienne Rich's evolution and accomplishment. 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No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289676525941,"sku":"9780393346008","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393346008_97599328-b5d3-4974-891b-931d743c7944.jpg?v=1786013437"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-adrienne-rich.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}