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Biography of Adrienne Rich
Name: Adrienne Rich
Birth Date: 1929
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich (born 1929), perhaps more than any other contemporary poet, crystallized in her work and life the deeply complex, awakening consciousness of modern women.The daughter of Arnold Rich, a professor of medicine, and Helen, a trained composer and pianist, Adrienne Rich described her early upbringing as "white and middle-class ... full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and write." From her father's well-stocked library she was reading such writers as Rosetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Keats, and Blake before officially attending grade school. In fact, since both her parents believed that they could educate their children better than a public school, neither she nor her sister was sent to class until fourth grade. However, by the time Rich graduated from high school she was writing concise and carefully constructed poetry.In 1951, the year Rich turned 22 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College, A Change of World was …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…dialogue between Adrienne Rich and Robin Morgan on poetry and women's culture. Other interviews include "Adrienne Rich: An Interview by David Montenegro," American Poetry Review, 20 (January-February 1991); and David Trinidad, "Adrienne Rich Charts a Difficult World: The Acclaimed Poet Talks of Art, Anger, and Activism," Advocate (31 December 1991). For further analysis of Rich's works, see Robert Boyers, "On Adrienne Rich: Intelligence and Will," Salmagundi 22-23 (Spring-Summer 1973); Albert Gelpi, "Adrienne Rich: The Poetics of Change," in American Poetry since 1960, edited by Robert B. Shaw (Cheadle, U.K., 1973); Randall Jarrell, "New Books in Review," Yale Review 46 (September 1956); David Kalstone, Five Temperaments (1977); Alicia Ostrike, "Her Cargo: Adrienne Rich and the Common Language," American Poetry Review 8 (July-August 1979); Helen Vendler, "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds," Parnassus 2 (Fall-Winter 1973); and Catharine Stimpson, "Adrienne Rich and Lesbian/Feminist Poetry," Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 12-13 (Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter 1985). Recent works includeFox: Poems, 1998-2000 and Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, both published in 2001.
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