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Adrienne Rich
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American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)
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Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an American poet, essayist, writer, and women's rights activist. Born in Baltimore, she was educated at Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Rich worked as a faculty member at Brandeis University, Cornell University, and Columbia University. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and her archives are held at the Schlesinger Library.
Rich’s work focused on poetry and essays, and she was influenced by Simone de Beauvoir and Sylvia Plath. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Bollingen Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award. She was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Rich resided in Baltimore and Santa Cruz, where she died of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 16 May 1929
- Died
- 27 March 2012
- Works
- 187
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- The trees
- Six women poets
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2012
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 751
- Total plays
- 3,944
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,917x
- Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer
· 2002 · cited 8,635x
- Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation
· 2015 · cited 6,104x
- Glioma stem cells promote radioresistance by preferential activation of the DNA damage response
· 2006 · cited 5,334x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
- “I have to say that what I know I know through making poems.”
- “instead of poems about experiences I am getting poems that are experiences, that contribute to my knowledge and my emotional life even while they reflect and assimilate it. In my earlier poems I told you, as precisely and eloquently as I knew how, about something in the more recent poems something is happening, something has happened to me and, if I have been a good parent to the poem, something will happen to you who read it.”
- “To become a token woman—whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters—is to become something less than a man … since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”
- “False history gets made all day, any day,the truth of the new is never on the newsFalse history gets written every day...The lesbian archaeologist watches herselfsifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing,asking the clay all questions but her own.”
- “Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Santa Cruz
- Occupation
- peace activist
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- National Book Award
- Field of work
- essay
- Official website
- adriennerich.net
- Image
- Audre Lorde, Meridel Lesueur, Adrienne Rich 1980.jpg
- Residence
- Santa Cruz
Show 13 more facts
- Commons category
- Adrienne Rich
- date of birth
- 1929-05-16
- date of death
- 2012-03-27
- archives at
- Schlesinger Library
- influenced by
- Sylvia Plath
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- cause of death
- rheumatoid arthritis
- medical condition
- rheumatoid arthritis
- unmarried partner
- Michelle Cliff
- manner of death
- natural causes
- married name
- Adrienne Conrad
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
~32 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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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