ON LIES, SECRETS AND SILENCE [Signed]

Rich, Adrienne

ISBN 10: 0393012336 / ISBN 13: 9780393012330

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 1979

About this Item

Octavo, 310 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Tan spine with blue and light brown lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price clipped, has a light stain on the front cover, mild age toning along the rear head edge, mild creasing along the head edge, and light rubbing wear along the spine tail edge. Boards have age toning along the head and tail edges, bending wear along the spine head and tail edges, and light bumping along the rear tail corner. Textblock has mild age toning and foxing on some pages throughout and the edges. Signed flat by Adrienne Rich on the title page. Shelved in Room C. 1392963. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1392963

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ON LIES, SECRETS AND SILENCE [Signed]
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393012336
• ISBN 13: 9780393012330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Essays & Speeches
  • LGBTQ+

About this title

Synopsis

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."

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 a National Book Award for poetry for Tonight, No Poetry Will Serve, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1994, and a National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for Diving Into the Wreck. That volume, published in 1973, is considered her masterwork. Ms. Rich's other 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 2006, Rich was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. In 2010, she was honored with The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award.