Rich s other volumes of poetry include The Dream of a Common Language, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, An Atlas of the Difficult World, The School Among the Ruins, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth. That volume, published in 1973, is considered her masterwork. Her constellation of honors includes a National Book Award for poetry for Tonight, No Poetry Will Serve, a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 1994, and a National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for Diving Into the Wreck. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry and more than a half-dozen of prose. Widely read, widely anthologized, widely interviewed, and widely taught, Adrienne Rich (1929 2012) was for decades among the most influential writers of the feminist movement and one of the best-known American public intellectuals. This is a reissue in a new format of a book of verse by Adrienne Rich, whose Collected Early Poems 1950-1970 was chosen as one of the Top Twenty titles for the Feminist Book Festival, Britain's annual celebration of the best of women's writing. We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion.
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