Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-05-16)May 16, 1929 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died
March 27, 2012(2012-03-27) (aged 82) Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
non-fiction writer
essayist
Education
Harvard University (BA)
Genre
Poetry, non-fiction
Notable works
Diving Into the Wreck and The Trees
Notable awards
National Book Award 1974 Bollingen Prize 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize 2010
Spouse
Alfred Haskell Conrad
(m. 1953; died 1970)
Partner
Michelle Cliff (1976–2012)
Children
3
Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ˈædriən/AD-ree-ən; 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",[1][2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse".[3] Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum", which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.[4]
Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by icon 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.
^Nelson, Cary, editor. Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Oxford University Press. 2000.
^"Poet Adrienne Rich, 82, has died". Los Angeles Times. March 28, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
^Flood, Alison (March 29, 2012). "Adrienne Rich, award-winning poet and essayist, dies". The Guardian. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
^Gerstner, David A. (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. pp. 484. ISBN 0-415-30651-5.
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