Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)
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Adrienne Rich was an American poet and essayist who became one of the most influential feminist voices of the late 20th century. Her work, which spanned from the 1950s until her death in 2012, challenged conventional ideas about poetry, gender, and politics, making her essential to understanding modern American literature and feminist thought.
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- 1929-05-16
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- 2012-03-27
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ˈædriɛn/ ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized the rigid identities that are sometimes created by feminism, called for feminism that is flexible and open to being transformed, and drew attention to the existing current of solidarity and creativity among women, which she named the "lesbian continuum."
Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Auden went on to write the introduction to the book. Rich famously declined the National Medal of Arts to protest House Speaker Newt Gingrich's vote to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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