{"product_id":"essential-essays-adrienne-rich-9780393652369","title":"Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. \u003cem\u003eEssential Essays\u003c\/em\u003e gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Rich's essays unite the political, personal, and poetical like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eEssential Essays\u003c\/em\u003e is edited and includes an introduction by leading feminist scholar, literary critic, and poet Sandra M. Gilbert. Emphasizing Rich's lifelong intellectual engagement, the essays selected here range from the 1960s to 2008. The volume contains one of Rich's earliest essays,\"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,\" which discusses the need for female self-definition, along with excerpts from her ambitious, ground-breaking \u003cem\u003eOf Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution\u003c\/em\u003e. As the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e wrote, Rich \"brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse,\" as evidenced in her 1980 essay, \"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso among these insightful and forward-thinking works are: \"Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity\"; excerpts from \u003cem\u003eWhat Is Found There\u003c\/em\u003e, about the need to reexamine the literary canon; \"Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts\"; \"Poetry and the Forgotten Future\"; and other writings that profoundly shaped second-wave feminism, each balanced by Rich's signature blend of research, theory, and self-reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrienne Rich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 039365236X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393652369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.30w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2018 pg. 97","brand":"Adrienne Rich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44227513614591,"sku":"9780393652369","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_351bedfb-0eda-4484-b220-fa42ad70673b.jpg?v=1692809103","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/essential-essays-adrienne-rich-9780393652369","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}