POET ~

Adrienne Rich

(May 16, 1929 ~ March 27, 2012)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/books/adrienne-rich-feminist-poet-and-author-dies-at-82.html?hp

Nonfiction books

• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. Norton. 1976. ISBN 978-0-393-31284-3.
• On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966–1978, 1979
• Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979–1985, 1986 (Includes the noted essay: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence")
• What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, 1993
• Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. W.W. Norton. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-05045-5.
• Poetry and Commitment: An Essay, 2007
• A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997–2008, 2009
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Poetry collections

• A Change of World. Yale University Press. 1951.
• The Diamond Cutters, and Other Poems. Harper. 1955.
• Snapshots of a daughter-in-law: poems, 1954-1962. Harper & Row. 1963.
• Necessities of life: poems, 1962-1965. W.W. Norton. 1966.
• Selected Poems. Chatto & Hogarth P Windus. 1967.
• Leaflets. W.W. Norton. 1969. ISBN 978-0-03-930419-5.
• The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970. Norton. 1971.
• Diving into the Wreck. W.W. Norton. 1973. ISBN 978-0-393-31163-1.
• Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974. Norton. 1975. ISBN 978-0-393-04392-1.
• Twenty-one Love Poems. Effie's Press. 1976.
• The Dream of a Common Language. Norton. 1978. ISBN 978-0-393-04502-4.
• A Wild Patience Has Taken Me this Far: Poems 1978-1981. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1982. ISBN 978-0-393-31037-5. (reprint 1993)
• Sources. Heyeck Press. 1983.
• The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1984. ISBN 978-0-393-31075-7.
• Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems. Norton. 1986. ISBN 978-0-393-02318-3.
• Time’s Power: Poems, 1985-1988. Norton. 1989. ISBN 978-0-393-02677-1.
• An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991. Norton. 1991. ISBN 978-0-393-03069-3.
• Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1993. ISBN 978-0-393-31385-7.
• Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems, 1991-1995. W.W. Norton. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-03868-2.
• Selected poems, 1950-1995. Salmon Pub.. 1996. ISBN 978-1-897648-78-0.
• Midnight Salvage: Poems, 1995-1998. Norton. 1999. ISBN 978-0-393-04682-3.
• Fox: Poems 1998-2000. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-32377-1. (reprint 2003)
• The School Among the Ruins: Poems, 2000-2004. W. W. Norton & Co.. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-32755-7.
• Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004–2006. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-06565-7.
• Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010. 2010. ISBN 0-393-07967-8.

WAIT

In paradise every

the desert wind is rising

third thought

in hell there are no thoughts

is of earth

sand screams against your government

issued tent hell’s noise

in your nostrils crawl

into your ear-shell

wrap yourself in no-thought

wait no place for the little lyric

wedding-ring glint the reason why

on earth

they never told you