A Change of World was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of a poet whose work has been crucial to discussions of gender, race, and class, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.
This reissue of Adrienne Richs first poetry collection reaffirms the authors place as one of our most important American poets.
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For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard |
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Why Else but to Forestall This Hour |
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At a Deathbed in the Year Two Thousand |
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The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room |
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Five O'Clock, Beacon Hill |
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From a
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The Return of the Evening Grosbeaks |
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"He Remembereth That We Are Dust" |
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Adrienne Rich (19292012) 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 Awardwinning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.
