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Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Rich, Adrienne Cecile (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393323129     ISBN-13: 9780393323122
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $18.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2002
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Annotation: Exploring gender and sexuality, language and its corruptions, and political systems and their possibilities, this collection features the National Book Award-winning poet's new prose works.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: B
LCCN: 00051522
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.58" W x 8.32" L (0.53 lbs) 204 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Lambda Book Report 05/01/2002 pg. 30
 
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Publisher Description:
These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair, Adrienne Rich writes. The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart. This volume collects Rich's essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts. The work is inspired and inspiring.--Alicia Ostriker [S]o clear and clean and thorough. I learn from her again and again.--Grace Paley

Contributor Bio(s): Rich, Adrienne: - 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. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry and more than a half-dozen of prose. Her constellation of honors includes two National Book Awards, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, and a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. Ms. Rich's 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. Her prose includes the essay collections On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; an influential essay, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and the nonfiction book Of Woman Born, which examines the institution of motherhood as a socio-historic construct. In 2010, she was honored with The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award.
 
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