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Adrienne Rich

Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites 

SCOPE: Adrienne Rich’s poetry provides a voice for the expression of women’s thoughts and feelings. She attempted to break out of the traditional literary conventions and to redefine herself and create new traditions (Magill, Critical Survey of Poetry).

She was the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America (1971) and the National Book Award for Diving in the Wreck in 1974.

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Books of Adrienne Rich’s works are listed in our on-line catalog under,” Rich, Adrienne,” and under individual titles.

Books written by and about Adrienne Rich have the call number(s) 
PS3535

Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:

Bennett, Paula. My Life, A Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Martin, Wendy. An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne 
Rich
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Rich, Adrienne Cecile. What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. New 
York: Norton, 1993.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. These resources provide an overview or summary of the topic.

The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

WEB SITES 

Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/rich.html

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Updated 08/16/2007