This is a reissue of an earlier selection of poems with a new
introduction by Adrienne Rich herself and a revised and larger
collection of poems. The revision includes poems from the six
additional books she has produced since the first edition of
Selected Poems appeared in 1984, and also poems published in
magazines and journals, some of which Rich describes as 'lost',
poems she had herself forgotten. With a span of 50 years, the
development of Rich's style and vision is clearly charted here as
the reader moves through the simplicity of 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers'
(1951), the timelessness of 'Dialogue' (1972), to the pain of
'Frame' (1980), and the primitive earthiness of 'Fox' (1998). In
the poem 'The Fact of a Doorframe', Adrienne Rich describes poetry
as being hewn into an 'archway, portal, frame' and it is this frame
that has shaped her approach to poetry. 'My life has been enmeshed
so long with poetry that I cannot, looking back at this collection
of five decades, imagine how I would have survived without this
doorframe. But it was first the poetry of others, in English -
Blake, Keats, Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Swinburne, Oscar
Wilde, the King James version of the Bible... that let me know the
doorframe was there for me.' There are other voices in the
doorframe too, songs sung at home round the piano, her parents'
Southern lilt, speeches heard on the radio during the Second World
War. An analysis of her poetry reveals a multi-layered strand of
outside voices and influences that have been filtered through her
thoughts to emerge on the page. A single phrase or even word will
resonate down the years for those who can pick up the allusion.
Adrienne Rich is a poet of considerable stature, the recipient of
many awards including a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement
Award, and this book confirms those achievements. (Kirkus UK)
"The Fact of a Doorframe" is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus,
from her formative lyricism in "A Change of Word" (1951), to the
groundbreaking poems of "Diving into the Wreck" (1973), to the
searching voice of "Fox" (2001).
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