Rich, Adrienne

For both popular and academic literature collections and readers across generations.

An "accurate dreamer" who voiced "her own inward scream," Rich is an indispensable poet, whose work parallels and brings into focus the transformative zeitgeist of her era. This magisterial compendium forcefully suggests that era has not yet passed. [See Prepub Alert, 12/7/15.]

One can sense Rich's nostalgia for her youth and apprehension at the frailty of old age. But there's no whining here. Mostly, these are poems of an aging poet (Rich was born in 1929) who is still gifted with sight, insight, and the poetic gifts necessary to express both.