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UNDERSTANDING ADRIENNE RICH UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE Matthew J. Bruccoli, Founding Editor Linda Wagner-Martin, Series Editor Volumes on Edward Albee | Sherman Alexie | Nelson Algren | Paul Auster Nicholson Baker | John Barth | Donald Barthelme | The Beats Thomas Berger | The Black Mountain Poets | Robert Bly | T. C. Boyle Truman Capote | Raymond Carver | Michael Chabon | Fred Chappell Chicano Literature | Contemporary American Drama Contemporary American Horror Fiction Contemporary American Literary Theory Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1926–1970 Contemporary American Science Fiction, 1970–2000 Contemporary Chicana Literature | Pat Conroy | Robert Coover | Don DeLillo Philip K. Dick | James Dickey | E. L. Doctorow | Rita Dove | Dave Eggers Louise Erdrich | John Gardner | George Garrett | Tim Gautreaux | William Gibson John Hawkes | Joseph Heller | Lillian Hellman | Beth Henley | James Leo Herlihy David Henry Hwang | John Irving | Randall Jarrell | Gish Jen | Charles Johnson Diane Johnson | Edward P. Jones | Adrienne Kennedy | William Kennedy | Jack Kerouac Jamaica Kincaid | Etheridge Knight | Tony Kushner | Ursula K. Le Guin Jonathan Lethem | Denise Levertov | Bernard Malamud | David Mamet Bobbie Ann Mason | Colum McCann | Cormac McCarthy | Jill McCorkle Carson McCullers | W. S. Merwin | Arthur Miller | Stephen Millhauser | Lorrie Moore Toni Morrison’s Fiction | Vladimir Nabokov | Gloria Naylor | Joyce Carol Oates Tim O’Brien | Flannery O’Connor | Cynthia Ozick | Suzan-Lori Parks | Walker Percy Katherine Anne Porter | Richard Powers | Reynolds Price | Annie Proulx Thomas Pynchon | Ron Rash | Theodore Roethke | Philip Roth | Richard Russo May Sarton | Hubert Selby, Jr. | Mary Lee Settle | Sam Shepard | Neil Simon Isaac Bashevis Singer | Jane Smiley | Gary Snyder | William Stafford Robert Stone | Anne Tyler | Gerald Vizenor | Kurt Vonnegut David Foster Wallace | Robert Penn Warren | James Welch | Eudora Welty Edmund White | Colson Whitehead | Tennessee Williams August Wilson | Charles Wright UNDERSTANDING ADRIENNE RICH Jeannette E. Riley The University of South Carolina Press © 2016 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208 www.sc.edu/uscpress 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/ ISBN 978-1-61117-699-5 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-61117-700-8 (ebook) Front cover photograph: Adrienne Rich, Santa Cruz, Ca., by Robert Giard, Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. © Estate of Robert Giard. This book would not have been written without the support of the women who have mentored me throughout my life: my mother, Liz Riley, who taught me to love words and reading; Minrose Gwin, for introducing me to Adrienne Rich and guiding my development as a reader of poetry; Ruth Salvaggio, for engag- ing me in the study of language and its power; Magali Carrera, for pushing me to write this book and for exemplifying how writing is essential to what we do; and Kathleen Torrens, for her keen editing eye and insightful comments along the (long) way. Thank you to the Estate of Adrienne Rich and Claire Reinersten at W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., for assistance with permissions. We must use what we have to invent what we desire. Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics CONTENTS Series Editor’s Preface xi Preface xiii Abbreviations xvii Chapter 1 Understanding Adrienne Rich 1 Chapter 2 “A Life I didn’t choose / chose me”: Transitions 16 Chapter 3 Feminist Poetics 39 Chapter 4 Entering History 58 Chapter 5 Poetry and Politics 84 Bibliography 105 Index 111
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