Essential Essays
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
This author explores the depths of human experience through poetry and essays, focusing on themes such as feminism, motherhood, and female identity. Her style evolved from an early elegance to a bolder formal and thematic experimentation. Her works are considered a significant contribution to feminist literature and an examination of complex social and personal issues.






A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.
In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim-to discover-what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.
Poems explore Atlanta's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today through food and cooking.