A blend of memoir and history which investigates women's role as mother. Drawing on anthropology, medicine, psychology, literature and her own experience, the author explores the contradictory pleasures and pains of motherhood.
Adrienne Rich Books
May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist, and feminist whose early work established her as an elegant, controlled stylist. She underwent a dramatic shift in the 1960s, embracing political and feminist themes and engaging in stylistic experimentation. Her poetry consistently explored women's experiences and aspirations through a feminist lens, often pushing formal boundaries. Rich also published numerous essays on poetry, feminism, motherhood, and lesbianism, leaving a profound impact on both literature and feminist thought.
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody--language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this."--Boston Evening Globe
At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."
The question is not: Does pornography cause violence against women? Pornography is violence against women, violence which pervades and distorts every aspect of our culture. In this angry, painful and astonishing book, Andrea Dworkin shows us that pornography is at the heart of male supremacy. It defines women in terms of sexual colonisation. It says that women's bodies belong to men. Our repugnance for pornography is repugnance for the betrayal of our sexual integrity. We will be free only when pornography no longer exists: for we are the women in it.
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa
About women and rape.
The Works of Anne Bradstreet
- 327 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, emerged during a time when literary creation was rare, especially for women. Born in England and raised in the household of the Earl of Lincoln, she sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630 after marrying Simon Bradstreet at sixteen. For forty years, she lived in the New England wilderness, raising eight children while facing sickness and hardship, all the while crafting poetry that established her as a pioneering voice. As noted by Adrienne Rich in her Foreword, Bradstreet was "the first non-didactic American poet," whose work embodied American nature and reflected personal intention over Puritan dogma. This volume includes all her extant poetry and prose, featuring modernized spelling and punctuation, and reproduces the second edition of Several Poems from 1678 along with a manuscript first printed in 1857. Rich's critique highlights the uneasiness surrounding women's intellectual pursuits during this era, as expressed in the Prologue of her early poems. Bradstreet's literary and historical allusions in The Tenth Muse reveal her broad learning, while her later works convey a more personal tone, reflecting her deep religious sense, love for her family, and the challenges she faced. Her writings, marked by a strong spirit and wit, establish her as a poet of sensibility and lasting significance.
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
- 688 pages
- 25 hours of reading
This anthology brings together forty-two influential essays, many regarded as classics, providing a vital overview of contemporary lesbian and gay studies. It showcases the breadth and depth of current scholarship, featuring contributions from esteemed scholars such as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. The essays delve into diverse sexual, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic experiences, reflecting a wide range of disciplines including history, literature, cultural studies, and sociology. The collection addresses significant themes such as gender roles, feminist theory, AIDS, and the politics of representation, while also exploring figures and topics like Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and the hijras of India. It highlights the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, examining the impact of societal norms on individual identities and experiences. Additionally, the anthology includes an extensive bibliographical essay, serving as a valuable resource for further exploration in the field. The contributions reflect the most important English-language work in lesbian and gay studies, making it an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of sexual identity and cultural expression.
The Poets' Collection
Englischsprachige Lyrik im Originalton und in deutscher Übersetzung
Die größte zweisprachige Lyrik-Anthologie im Originalton versammelt 94 englischsprachige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker und bietet seltene Sprachaufnahmen, die in mehrjähriger Recherche zusammengetragen wurden. Die Anthologie nimmt die Hörer mit auf eine zeitliche und geographische Reise durch das letzte Jahrhundert der englischsprachigen Welt. Die Übersetzungen werden von erstklassigen Schauspielern gelesen und stammen von angesehenen Lyrikern und Übersetzern. Zu den vertretenen Dichtern gehören Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald Macleish, Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Robert Ranke Graves, Louise Bogan, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Louis Zukofsky, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cage, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dylan Thomas, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Michael Hamburger, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Charles Tomlinson
