Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (Norton Paperback) - Softcover

Rich, Adrienne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393323773 ISBN 13: 9780393323771

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Synopsis

In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues taking the temperature of mind and body in her time in an intimate and yet commanding voice that resonates long after an initial reading. Fox is formidable and moving, fierce and passionate, and one of Rich's most powerful works to date. "Justly celebrated...Rich has long wanted to set her readers' minds blazing...she succeeds."-Publishers Weekly starred review "Intimate, explorative, these are poems with a millennial feel, at once retrospective and forward-looking."-Washington Post Book World

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Review:

"A challenging collection tht should more than satisfy [Rich's] large and loyal following."

"Justly celebrated....With her emotional complexity, her scratched-up sonic surfaces and her strong ethical commitments. Rich has long wanted to set her readers' minds blazing...she succeeds."

"Intimate, explorative, these are poems with a millennial feel, at once retrospective and forward-looking."

About the Author:

Widely read, widely anthologized, widely interviewed, and widely taught, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) was for decades among the most influential writers of the feminist movement and one of the best-known American public intellectuals. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry and more than a half-dozen of prose. Her constellation of honors includes two National Book Awards, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, and a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. Ms. Rich's volumes of poetry include The Dream of a Common Language, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, An Atlas of the Difficult World, The School Among the Ruins, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth. Her prose includes the essay collections On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; an influential essay, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and the nonfiction book Of Woman Born, which examines the institution of motherhood as a socio-historic construct. In 2010, she was honored with The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393323773
• ISBN 13: 9780393323771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80