Product Description: This reissue of Adrienne Rich’s first poetry collection reaffirms the author’s place as one of our most important American poets.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...read more

Product Description: “Rich’s poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.”―Booklist “Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she’s racked up...read more

More than two hundred poems--including her first poem, published in the Yale Younger Poets--culled from Rich's earlier collections confirms Rich's position among the enduring poets of the English language

A collection of poetic works by an award-winning writer considers the impact of the twenty-first century's dislocations, upheavals, and public crises on individual lives, conveying in the title poem a young schoolteacher's evocation of the lessons learned by her students amid violence and hatred. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.

The poet, translator, and political activist is given full expression through poems selected by Adrienne Rich that feature musings on politics, geography, sexuality, and mythology, as well as observations of her own life. (view table of contents)

A new collection of poetry by one of America's most distinguished poets reflects on her signature themes--the discourse between poetry and history, dialogues between poets and visual artists, interlocutions within and across gender, and more--in a volume that contains two long poems, 'Veteran's Day' and 'Terza Rima,' as well as the title work. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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A treasury of essays from the last decade of the twentieth century illuminates the author's search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, featuring four earlier essays and several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Presents archival recordings of the poet reading her own works, accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and commentary.

Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most admired and controversial poets, the translator of such great international poets as César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire and Antonin Artaud, and founder and editor of two important literary magazines, Sulfur and Caterpillar. As such, Eshleman writes about the vocation of poet and of the poet as translator as no one else in America today; he believes adamantly that art must concern itself with vision, and that poets learn best by an apprenticeship that is a kind of immersion in the work of other poets. Companion Spider opens with a unique eighty page essay called "Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship" addressed to the poet who is just starting out. Subsequent sections take up the art of translation, poets and their work, and literary magazine editing. The title is drawn from an extraordinary visionary experience which the author had, which becomes a potent metaphor for the creative process. Through the variety of poets and artists to whom he pays homage, Eshleman suggests a community which is not of a single place or time; rather, there is mutual recognition and responsiveness, so that the reader becomes aware of a range of artistic practices s/he might explore (view table of contents)

Poems exploring the end of the century interweave the terrible with hope in an antidote to despair, self-involvement, and complacency

An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

"When does a life bend towards freed? grasp its direction" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both. A theater of voices of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents, the poems of Dark Fields of the Republic take conversations, imaginary and real, actions taken for better or worse, out of histories and songs to extend the poet's reach of witness and power of connection--and then invites the reader to participate.

The author reexamines her own experiences as a woman and mother, discusses the potential relationship between women and reproduction, and analyzes the assumptions, stereotypes, and restrictions of a patriarchal society

Drawing on her journals, letters, dreams, memories, and careful readings of many poets, the award-winning poet reflects on the influence of literature on American life and politics today (view table of contents)