A selective bibliography of open access articles on Adrienne Rich, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Bere, Carol. Short review of two books of poetry by Adrienne Rich 'Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations' and 'Fox: Poems 1998-2000' by Adrienne Rich. Reviewed in the Washington Post, November 11, 2001
Bere, Carol. Article on the selection of "Shattered Head" for Robert Hass's Poet's Choice column. "The Road Taken: Adrienne Rich in the 1990s," in Literary Review, Summer, 2000
Cabral, Rodrigo Espinosa. A master's thesis on Poetry and Politics in Adrienne Rich (2001) "The purpose of this study is to analyze the relation between poetry and politics in her collections of poems from 1951 to 1999, trying to accompany its development. For that, in the first chapter, Mikhail Bakhtin’s and Theodor Adorno’s ideas on lyric and society are discussed in relation to Adrienne Rich’s essays on the matter. Subsequent chapters analyze her poems in dialogue with these theoretical premises, as well as Rich’s prose, interviews, and other criticisms on her work."
Douglas, Carol Anne. A review of Arts of the Possible (2001) discusses Adrienne Rich's interest in the philosophy of Marx. In Off Our Backs, Jan/Feb 2002
Gilbert, Roger. On similarities of language and intellectual differences in Elizabeth Bishop's "At the Fishhouses" and Adrienne Rich's "Diving Into the Wreck, "which revolve around questions of knowledge, history, and a key metaphor, immersion." Excerpt at Modern American Poetry (Univ. of Ill.)
Hass, Robert. Poet Robert Hass presents a close reading of Adrienne Rich's poem "Shattered Head" in his Poet's Choice Washington Post column
Jarman, Mark. Extended article on recent books from seven major American poets, including Adrienne Rich: The School Among the Ruins: Poems, 2000-2004, By Adrienne Rich; Jack and Other New Poems, By Maxine Kumin; Breath, By Philip Levine; Bosh and Flapdoodle, By A. R. Ammons; Collected Poems, By Donald Justice; Collected Poems 1943-2004, By Richard Wilbur. In the Hudson Review, Spring 2005
Moramarco, Fred. A lengthy essay has a section on Adrienne Rich among other poets who "would move beyond the impersonal, objectivist confines of modernism and toward a poetry centered in the physical self of the poet who produced it. They participated collectively in the mid-century poetic climate that revolutionized poetry and greatly broadened its possibilities." From Moramarco's book Containing Multitudes
Reuben, Paul. A primary and secondary bibliography for Adrienne Rich from Professor Reuben's bibliography site
Templeton, Alice. A review of Alice Templeton's The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich's Feminist Poetics (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1994.) Reviewed by Diggory, Terence, in College Literature, Jun 1996
Vandersee, Charles. How American locations and history are used for the purpose of helping readers understand their nation in two geographical poems: Adrienne Rich's "At Atlas of the Difficult World" and Amy Clampitt's "The Prairie." "Clampitt and Rich as Public Historians in the 1990s," from a talk at the Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Rutgers Univ., 1997 (removed)
Yorke, Liz. On Rich as a feminist theorist and revolutionary poet. "'What I know, I know through making poems': Passion, Politics, and the Body in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich," from a talk at the Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Rutgers Univ., 1997 (removed)
A biography of Adrienne Rich from the Modern American Poetry site (Univ. of Ill.)
Brief discussions by recognized critics of the following poems by Adrienne Rich: | On "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" | On "Shooting Script" | On "Trying to Talk with a Man" | On "Diving into the Wreck" | On "Twenty-One Love Poems" | On "Power" | On "(Dedications)" From The Modern American Poetry site (Univ. of Ill.)
An interview with Adrienne Rich in Samsara, an online poetry journal, by Paulo da Costa, on the subject of political and personal poetry, July 2004
Article by Adrienne Rich in which she explains why she refused the National Medal of Arts award from the Clinton Administration. In the Los Angeles Times Book Section, August 3, 1997
Brief article on imagery in poetry uses Adrienne Rich's "Living in Sin" as an example. From Professor Donna Smith
An interview with Adrienne Rich, by Matthew Rothschild, from The Progressive, January 1994
A timeline for Adrienne Rich compiled by Erika Goodman, Millikin University
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=50 An introduction to Adrienne Rich from the Academy of American Poets
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