Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

"[Rich's poems] shine with defiance, fierce commitment, introspection and self-reproach, 'hunger for clarity' and 'sour plum jam,' majestic coastlines and domestic detail. Here is a poet who knew her own contradictions, determined to depict them accurately, and equally determined that she would not write for herself alone." -- Stephen Burt - San Francisco Chronicle

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

"[Rich's poems] shine with defiance, fierce commitment, introspection and self-reproach, 'hunger for clarity' and 'sour plum jam,' majestic coastlines and domestic detail. Here is a poet who knew her own contradictions, determined to depict them accurately, and equally determined that she would not write for herself alone." -- Stephen Burt - San Francisco Chronicle

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

"[Rich's poems] shine with defiance, fierce commitment, introspection and self-reproach, 'hunger for clarity' and 'sour plum jam,' majestic coastlines and domestic detail. Here is a poet who knew her own contradictions, determined to depict them accurately, and equally determined that she would not write for herself alone." -- Stephen Burt - San Francisco Chronicle