“This absolutely exquisite selection of a major poet’s best
poetry is a tribute to both her and the editors as well as a deep
service to literate humanity.” —ALBERT WACHTEL, Pitzer College
This
Norton Critical Edition includes:
• Generous
selections of poetry and prose from the entire oeuvre of one of
America’s most influential poets.
• An
introduction and explanatory annotations by Barbara Charlesworth
Gelpi, Albert Gelpi, and Brett Millier.
• Fifteen
reviews and critical commentaries, nine of them new to the Second
Edition, carefully chosen as a guide to Adrienne Rich’s poetics—and
to her poetics as related to politics—ranging from W. H. Auden’s
1951 response to her first book to critics’ reviews of the
magisterial Collected Poems in 2016.
• A
Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.
