The Fact Of A Doorframe (poems 1950-2001)

Description

By (author) Rich Adrienne

Short /annotation:
A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.

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The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich”s opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).

Review quote:
“Rich is the Blake of American letters.” Nadine Gordimer

Biographical note:
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.