Online Interviews

The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Public Affairs Television, Inc., and David Grubin productions, In by Bill Moyers. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rich/dedications.htm - Modern American Poetry

I happen to think poetry makes a huge difference.

By Matthew Rothschild, with a excerpt from "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law." The Progressive, January 1994.

http://www.progressive.org/rothrich9401.htm

The Possibilities of an Engaged Art: An Interview with Adrienne Rich

By Ruth E. C. Prince - Radcliffe Quarterly - Fall 1998

http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/199803/page36.html

 

A Rich Life: Adrienne Rich on Poetry, Politics, and Personal Revelation
By Michael Klein - Boston Pheonix (June 1999)

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/1in10/99/06/RICH.html

 

"Interview with Adrienne Rich"

by Paulo da Costa

http://www.samsaraquarterly.net/5/rich.htm

 

Adrienne Rich: Standing at the Intersection of Art and Activism
by Pat Simpson, Michele Marchand, and Anitra Freeman - Real Change News

http://www.realchangenews.org/pastissues/Apr_19_01/interviews/

 

Rich Represents Fierce Union of Art and Politics

by Judy Doenges - The Seattle Times - 9 Feb. 1999. Mar. 21 2000.

http://seattletimes.com/news/entertainment/html98/rich_020999.html

Online Dissertations and Theses Abstracts

A Dissertation Description By Alex E. Blazer - Department of English
The Ohio State University -PhD, English, The Ohio State University, currently writing the dissertation prospectus.

Toward an Ethics of Location: Witnessing Community in Adrienne Rich's Poetry." By Josh Jacobs - Department of English Rutgers University

The New Self-in-Relation: Female Identity as Represented by Atwood, Rich, and Lorde - By Rebecca Gose - Department of English B.A. Honors Thesis Abstract.

Online Essays and Articles

"Defy the Space That Separates" An essay by Adrienne Rich from The Nation, October 7, 1996.

"Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts"
A Letter by Adrienne Rich - Los Angeles Times Book Section -- August 3, 1997

Credo of a Passionate Skeptic

An Article by Adrienne Rich - Los Angeles Times -- Sunday, March 11, 2001

"Clampitt and Rich as Public Historians in the 1990s"
By Charles Vandersee, University of Virginia. From "Poetry in the Public Sphere: The Conference on Contemporary Poetry," Rutgers University, April 1997.

Passion, Politics and the Body in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
By Liz Yorke, Nottingham Trent University, England. From "Poetry in the Public Sphere: The Conference on Contemporary Poetry," Rutgers University, April 1997.

Poet's Choice: Adrienne Rich
Robert Hass discusses a poem from Rich's Midnight Salvage in the Washington Post Book World, Sunday, May 16, 1999.

Analysis of Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" By Jennifer Mottram - Form and function. When people create art, are they working out inner demons, or releasing their spirits? Perhaps some of both, and the Aunt Jennifer in this poem certainly has an inner life that sets her free.

Analysis of Adrienne Rich's "Living in Sin" By Jennifer Mottram - Adrienne Rich has crafted a poem that perfectly captures the tragedy of faded love. Come see how she does it.

 

The Loves Portrayed in "Living in Sin," an Analysis of the Adrienne Rich's poem by Altagracia Berrios, Junior, from the website library.thinkquest.org.

 

Analysis of Adrienne Rich's "Necessities of Life" by Nadia Rivera, Junior, from the website library.thinkquest.org.

Views of Lesbianism in Adrienne Rich's (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered) By Bryan Rhodes and Amanda French

March 23, 1998

Comparing Elizabeth Bishop's "At the Fishouses" and Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" By Roger Gilbert - from "Framing Water: Historical Knowledge in Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich" Twentith Century Literature (Summer 1997)

The Road Taken: Adrienne Rich in the 1990s.(Poem) By Carol Bere - From Literary Review Issue: Summer, 2000

Lesbian Identity and the Politics of Butch-Femme Roles By Amy Goodloe

Sexual Identity & Sexual Revolution
Ann Ferguson expounds upon ideas put forth by Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"

Online Book Reviews

 

 

A Review of Dark Fields of the Republic or "Oscuros campos de la República" in Spanish. By Constanza Ceresa V.
from Taller de Crítica Literaria Mariano Aguirre - Chile.

 

 

Emerging from the wreck - Adrienne Rich's new collection reinforces her place in the pantheon. By Judy Lightfoot - Published February 4 - 10, 1999 - A Review of Midnight Salvage

A Review of Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Dana Gioia.

A Review of Midnight Salvage, by Aviya Kushner, from The Washington Post (1999): 1.

Vitreous Verse." A Review of Midnight Salvage, by Adam Newey. from. FindArticles.Com (1999): 1-2.

Controversy: They have the numbers; we, the heights - by Harold Bloom from the Boston Review 23 (2). - Polemical essay indirectly addressed against Rich by this famous critic.

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Printed Reference on Rich

Selected Bibliography: Theses

Cabral, Rodrigo. Poetry and Politics in Adrienne Rich (1951-1999).Thesis UFSC, 2001.

Oliveira, Marcia. Adrienne Rich: Towards a Feminist Poetics. Thesis UFSC, 1992.

Altieri, Charles. Self and sensibility in contemporary American poetry. NY: Cambridge UP, 1984. PS325 .A38

Cooper, Jane R. ed. Reading Adrienne Rich: reviews and re-visions, 1951-81. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1984. PS3535 .I233 Z87

Keyes, Claire. The aesthetics of power: the poetry of Adrienne Rich. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1986. PS3535 .I233 Z73

Martin, Wendy. An American triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984. PS310 .F45 M3

Ratcliffe, Krista. Anglo-American feminist challenges to the rhetorical traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

Spender, Dale. Women of ideas and what men have done to them: from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. HQ1206 .S68

Werner, Craig H. Adrienne Rich: the poet and her critics. Chicago: American Library Association, 1988. PS3535 .I233 Z93

Templeton, Alice. The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich’s Feminist Poetics. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Selected Bibliography: Articles

Alteri, Charles. "Self-Reflection as Action: The Recent Work of Adrienne Rich." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism / selected and edited by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 342-357.

Ashbery, John. "Tradition and Talent." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 279-280.

Atwood, Margaret. "Review of Diving into the Wreck." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism / selected and edited by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 280-282.

Auden, W. H. "Foreword to A Change of World." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 277-279.

Auden, W. H. "Foreword to A Change of World." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 277-279.

Caris, Jane. "Body as Metaphor in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Pleiades 16.2 (Sprg 1996): 105-15.

Christ, Carol. Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest. "Homesick for a Woman, for Ourselves: Adrienne Rich." Boston: Beacon Press, 1980. 75-96.

Eckstein, Barbara. "Iconicity, Immersion and Otherness: The Hegelian 'Dive' of J. M. Coetzee and Adrienne Rich." Mosaic 29.1 (Mar 1996): 57-77.

Erickson, Peter. "Singing America: From Walt Whitman to Adrienne Rich." Kenyon Review 17.1 (Wint 1995): 103-19.

Estrin, Barbara L. "Space-Off and Voice-Over: Adrienne Rich and Wallace Stevens." Women's Studies 25.1 (Nov 1995): 23-46.

Flowers, Betty S. "Wrestling with the Mother and the Father: 'His' and 'Her' in Adrienne Rich." Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life. Ed. Nancy O. Nelson. Denton: U of North Texas P, 1995. 54-63.

- - -. "The 'I' in Adrienne Rich: Individuation and the Androgyne Archetype." Theory and Practice of Feminist Literary Criticism. Eds. Gabriela Mora and Karen S. Van Hooft. Ypsilanti, MI : Bilingual, 1982. 14-35.

Gelpi, Aberti. "Adrienne Rich: The Poetics of Change." Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose: poems, prose, reviews and criticism ed. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi. W.W. Norton, 1993. 282-299.

Gilbert, Roger. "Framing Water: Historical Knowledge in Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich." Twentieth Century Literature 43.2 (Sumr 1997): 144-61.

Greenwald, Elissa. "The Dream of a Common Language: Vietnam Poetry as Reformation of Language and Feeling in the Poems of Adrienne Rich." Journal of American Culture 16.3 (Fall 1993): 97-102.

Herzog, Anne. "Adrienne Rich and the Discourse of Decolonization." Centennial Review 33.3 (Sumr 1989): 258-277.

Klein, Karen W. "Adrienne Rich: 'Stuck to Earth.'" Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Eds. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. Newark, DE : U of Delaware P, 1997. 194-208.

Lindroth, James. "Tropes of Discovery: Adrienne Rich and Diving into the Wreck." CEA Critic 47.3 (Sprg 1985): 69-78.

Matson, Suzanne. "Talking to Our Father: The Political and Mythical Appropriations of Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds." American Poetry Review 18.6 (Nov-Dec 1989): 35-41.

McCorkle, James. "Adrienne Rich: A Common Language of Self-Definition." Notes on Modern American Literature 9.3 (Wint 1985): Item 15.

McGuirk, Kevin. "Philoctetes Radicalized: 'Twenty-One Love Poems' and the Lyric Career of Adrienne Rich." Contemporary Literature 34.1 (Sprg 1993): 61-87.

Monroe, Jonathan. "Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? "Mischiling and Métis: Common and Uncommon Languages in Adrienne Rich and Aimé Césaire." London: Duke U.P., 1990.

Shreiber, Maeera. "'Where Are We Moored?': Adrienne Rich, Women's Mourning, and the Limits of Lament." Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry. Eds. Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997. 301-17.

Sielke, Sabine. "Snapshots of Marriage, Snares of Mimicry, Snarls of Motherhood: Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich." Sagetrieb 6.3 (Wint 1987): 79-97.

Slowick, Mary. "The Friction of the Mind: The Early Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Massachusetts Review 25.1 (Sprg 1984): 142-160.

Stein, Kevin. Private Poets, Worldly Acts. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996.

Stimpson, Catharine. "Adrienne Rich and Lesbian/Feminist Poetry." Parnassus 12-13.2-1 (Sprg-Wint 1985): 249-268.

Strine, Mary S. "The Politics of Asking Women's Questions: Voice and Value in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich." Text and Performance Quarterly 9.1 (Jan 1989): 24-41.

Walker, Jeffrey A. "Remapping Freudian America: Adrienne Rich and the Adult Son." North Dakota Quarterly 62.3 (Sumr 1994-95): 76-93.

Vendler, Helen. "Mapping the Air - Adrienne Rich and Jorie Graham." Soul Says: On Recent Poetry. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995. Chapter 19 (212-234)

Zimmerman, Lee. "An Eye for an I: Emerson and Some 'True' Poems of Robinson Jeffers, William Everson, Robert Penn Warren, and Adrienne Rich." Contemporary Literature 33.4 (Wint 1992): 645-64

Library of Congress Online Citations - Library of Canada Online Citations - Library of Congress Offline Citations -

Rich's books - Amazon.com - http://www.wwnorton.com/