“We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion.”—New York Times

The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships Ad

When still a senior at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich was selected as a Yale Younger Poet. The judge, W.H. Auden, wrote the introduction to her first book of poems. T