Beschreibung:
The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich's most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich's essays unite the political, personal and poetical.Included are Rich's landmark essays "e;Motherhood as Experience and Institution"e;; "e;What Is Found There"e;; "e;Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts"e; and "e;Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence"e;. As Sandra Gilbert writes, "e;To re-read and to re-think Rich's prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual..."e;
A New York Times Critics’ Pick
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.