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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich

Born: 16 May 1929 • Died: 27 March 2012

Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore on May 16, 1929. After having three sons, Rich gradually changed both her life and her poetry. The content of her work became increasingly confrontational, exploring such themes as women’s roles in society, racism, and the Vietnam War. It was in 1973, in the midst of the feminist and Civil Rights movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Rich wrote Diving into the Wreck, a collection of exploratory and often angry poems, which garnered her the National Book Award in 1974. She died in Santa Cruz, California, on March 27, 2012. (Source)

Poems by Adrienne Rich

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What Kind of Times Are These by Adrienne Rich

October 27, 2025
“our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, / its own ways of making people disappear.” — Adrienne Rich
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Final Notations by Adrienne Rich

January 10, 2013
“our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, / its own ways of making people disappear.” — Adrienne Rich
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II, from Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich

February 22, 2011
"I dreamed you were a poem, / I say, a poem I wanted to show someone..." — Adrienne Rich
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Translations by Adrienne Rich

January 12, 2006
"ignorant of the fact this way of grief / is shared, unnecessary / and political" — Adrienne Rich
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Song by Adrienne Rich

January 6, 2006
"If I'm lonely / it must be the loneliness / of waking first, of breathing / dawns' first cold breath on the city" — Adrienne Rich
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Miracle Ice Cream by Adrienne Rich

September 11, 2005
"Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow" – Adrienne Rich