Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (May 16th, 1929, Baltimore, Maryland -) is one of the largest poets of the the United States of the end of the 20th century.

Since 1951, it publishes its first collection of poems, off has Exchange World , which receives the " Yale Younger Poets Prize". In 1953, she marries an economist, Alfred Conrad. They have three children, and move in New York in 1966. She teaches there with underprivileged students of colors. Already committed for social reforms and against the Racism, it reads James Baldwin and Simone de Beauvoir and engages in the Féminisme. Since 1976, she lives with Michelle Cliff. One of its most famous tests, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980), exposes its theory of the " continuum lesbian "

Among his the most known collections, one counts:

Snapshots off has Daughter-in-Law (1963),
Leaflets (1969),
The Will to Change (1971),
Diving into the Wreck (1973),
Twenty-One Love Poems (1977),
The Dream off has Common Language (1978),
has Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981),
Time' S Power (1988)
An Atlas off the Difficult World (1991),
Midnight Salvage (1999),
Fox (2001)
has School among the Ruins (2004).

Price

the " National Book Award" in 1974, price which it decides to divide with Alice Walker and Audre Lorde;
Two Guggenheim purses;
the " Creative Brandeis Medal" Arts; ;
the " Fund for Human Dignity Award off the National Gay Task force " in 1981;
the " National Poetry Association Award for Distinguished Service to the Art off Poetry".
It refuses the " National Medal for the Arts" in 1997.

To read

Marie-Christine Lemardeley-Cunci, Adrienne Rich, Cartographies of silence , University Presses of Lyon, 1990.

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