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by: Adrienne Rich, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393961478
ISBN: 0393961478
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: May 19, 1993
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 95993
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Rating:  - Diving into the crap
These poems might as well have been the dictated sounds of gas bubbles coming up through the innards of a body dragged out of a lake. Rich is bitter, stale like old medical encyclopedias uprooted from their post in grandma's attic. If that's what you're into, have at it. Me, I'm not into mothball verse.
Rating:  - Booooooo-ring!
Adrienne Rich has to be the most over-rated poet in history. Her work would be completely forgotten if it was judged as poetry, but because she has been adopted as the ideological idol of PC fanatics everywhere, she has become an untouchable icon of the present. Rich is best compared, intellectually, to the literary drudges of Soviet Russia, who extolled the glories of the people for the Communist Party. The diffrence, obviously, is that Rich is not embraced by the State, but by the buddy system ... Read More
Rating:  - recognized by some be in top 100--(US) poets
Oct. 5: She is presented with prestigious Lannan Literary Award..for $100,000 for a job in writing,well.
Rating: - Thank You Thank You Adrienne!!!
Not merely a wonderful and incredibly courageous poet; oh, no. She is also a brilliant and challenging essayist. Most famous for "The Hermit's Scream", her other prose is absolutely startling in its originality and courage. This book is a threat to white males everywhere. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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