When Women Blew Up American Poetry Jun 3, 2009
But it is Adrienne Rich, in a poem called who moves beyond a critique of what has already happened between women to envision a new model of female community. Taking the loss in a storm in Lenin Park of a Soviet womens mountaineering team, she writes in the imagined voice of one of the perished climbers of a dream of women working together. (Slate)
Catching up with Howard Junker Mar 27, 2009
Hence, Zyzzyva: The Journal of West Coast Writers ts, a literary magazine that has published the work of Sherman Alexie, Aimee Bender, Adam Hochschild, Adrienne Rich and dozens more ... Hence, Zyzzyva: The Journal of West Coast Writers ts, a literary magazine that has published the work of Sherman Alexie, Aimee Bender, Adam Hochschild, Adrienne Rich and. (San Francisco Chronicle)
All she wrote Mar 15, 2009
Her treatment of poetry is significantly less coherent and ambitious than her reading of fiction: "A Jury of Her Peers" complains that 19th-century women poets, the familiar exception of Emily Dickinson aside, "devoted their energies to new content rather than new forms," but, closer to home, Showalter herself evaluates the feminist poets of the 1970s, especially Adrienne Rich and Anne Sexton, in terms of their racy new content rather than their explorations in poetic form. Formal innovation, it... (Boston Globe)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The celebrated get their dueHarriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrisonand so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others. Who decides which subjects matter; what voice is appropriate for what kind of story; what books get... (Slate)
