Selected Poems: 1950-2012

Sixty years of poems from pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual Adrienne Richthe Blake of American letters (Nadine Gordimer).Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Richs published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known workthe clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of the 1970s, including Diving into the Wreck, Planetarium, and The Phenomenology of Angerand 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 Visin, Selected Poems celebrates Richs prophetic vision as well as the inventiveness that shaped her enduring art.