Adrienne Rich (1929 -)

A selective list of online criticism for American poet Adrienne Rich, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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Introduction

"Adrienne Rich." A biography by Deborah Pope. Brief critical commentary: on "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," on "Shooting Script," on "Trying to Talk with a Man," on "Diving into the Wreck," on "Twenty-One Love Poems," on "Power," on "(Dedications)." Roger Gilbert on comparing Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich. Interview with Adrienne Rich. Modern American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson.

"Adrienne Rich." Poetry Archive. Directors, Andrew Motion & Richard Carrington.

"Adrienne Rich." A short introduction to Adrienne Rich, and sample poems. The Poetry Center at Smith College. Ellen Doré Watson, Director.

"Poet and pioneer." A profile of Adrienne Rich. UK Guardian, 2002.

"Adrienne Rich." Brief biography from the Academy of American Poets.

Literary criticism

Altieri, Charles. "Self-Reflection as Action: The Recent Work of Adrienne Rich." In Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry (Cambridge UP 1984). Publisher's site, excerpt available (Introduction).

Clark, Miriam Marty. "Human Rights and the Work of Lyric in Adrienne Rich." First page of article only. Cambridge Quarterly 38 (2009).

Diehl, Joanne Feit. "'Of Woman Born': Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Sublime," in Women Poets and the American Sublime (Indiana UP 1990). Publisher's web site.

Diggory, Terence. A review of The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich's Feminist Poetics by Alice Templeton (U of Tennessee P 1994). College Literature, June 1996.

Gelpi, Albert and Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi. Publisher's site for Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose, Norton Critical Editions.

Hass, Robert. A close reading of Adrienne Rich's "Shattered Head." Washington Post 16 May 1999. Also, "The Road Taken: Adrienne Rich in the 1990s," Carol Bere responds to Hass's article. Literary Review Summer 2000.

Jarman, Mark. Recent books from seven major American poets, including Adrienne Rich. The School Among the Ruins: Poems, 2000-2004, By Adrienne Rich; Jack and Other New Poems, By Maxine Kumin; Breath, By Philip Levine; Bosh and Flapdoodle, By A. R. Ammons; Collected Poems, By Donald Justice; Collected Poems 1943-2004, By Richard Wilbur. Hudson Review, Spring 2005.

Martin, Wendy. Teaching Guide for Adrienne Rich. Heath Anthology.

Moramarco, Fred. On Adrienne Rich, who is among the poets Moramarco discusses who would move "toward a poetry centered in the physical self of the poet who produced it. They participated collectively in the mid-century poetic climate that revolutionized poetry and greatly broadened its possibilities." In Containing Multitudes (Twaine, 1998).

Templeton, Alice. "Contradictions: Tracking Adrienne Rich's Poetry." Templeton draws conclusions about Adrienne Rich from seven book-length critical studies of her work. First page of article only. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 12 (Autumn 1993).

Removed articles

Article by Adrienne Rich in which she explains why she refused the National Medal of Arts award from the Clinton Administration. In the Los Angeles Times Book Section, August 3, 1997 (removed)

Bere, Carol. Short review of two books of poetry by Adrienne Rich. 'Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations' and 'Fox: Poems 1998-2000' by Adrienne Rich. Reviewed in the Washington Post, November 11, 2001 (removed)

Vandersee, Charles. How American locations and history are used for the purpose of helping readers understand their nation in two geographical poems: Adrienne Rich's "At Atlas of the Difficult World" and Amy Clampitt's "The Prairie." "Clampitt and Rich as Public Historians in the 1990s," from a talk at the Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Rutgers Univ., 1997 (removed)

Yorke, Liz. On Rich as a feminist theorist and revolutionary poet. "'What I know, I know through making poems': Passion, Politics, and the Body in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich," from a talk at the Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Rutgers Univ., 1997 (removed)

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