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The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships
Adrienne Rich’s Solitude from Boston Review. Critics tend to discount Rich’s later poems, fundamentally misunderstanding how they engage her radical vision of community.
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich W.W. Norton & Company, 416 pp., $16.95 The relationship didn’t last, and in a 1977 interview, Rich would say she “regretted airing her grievances with Sontag in print.” This anecdote, like so many others within Hilary Holladay’s capacious new biography of Rich, encapsulates the mixed-up and messy, personal and political shape and texture of Adrienne Rich’s life. It shows, too, how willingly she often looked back later on choices she’d made with regret. Commitments and reversals, a continually impressive abil...