Adrienne Rich's poetry and prose : poems, prose, reviews, and criticism / selected and edited by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi.

Rev. ed. of: Adrienne Rich's poetry. 1st ed. 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-429) and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- From A change of world -- Storm warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers -- Afterward -- The uncle speaks in the drawing room -- An unsaid word -- From The diamond cutters and other poems -- Living in sin -- The diamond cutters -- From Snapshots of a daughter-in-law: poems, 1954-1962 -- The knight -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law -- Antinous: the diaries -- A marriage in the 'sixties -- The roofwalker -- Ghost of a chance -- Prospective immigrants please note -- From Necessities of life: poems, 1962-1965 -- Necessities of life -- In the woods -- The trees -- Like this together -- After dark -- I am in danger, sir -- Focus -- Face to face -- From Leaflets: poems, 1965-1968 -- Orion -- The demon lover -- 5:30 A.M. -- Implosions -- On edges -- Nightbreak -- From The will to change: poems, 1968-1970 -- Planetarium -- The burning of paper instead of children -- I dream I'm the death of Orpheus -- Our whole life -- A valediction forbidding mourning -- Shooting script (11/69-7/70): 1, 8, 13, 14 -- From Diving into the wreck: poems, 1971-1972 -- Trying to talk with a man -- Waking in the dark -- The stranger -- Diving into the wreck -- The phenomenology of anger -- From a survivor -- For the dead -- From Poems: selected and new, 1950-1974 -- Re-forming the crystal -- The fact of a doorframe -- From an old house in America -- From The dream of a common language: poems, 1974-1977 -- Power -- Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev -- Splittings -- Twenty-one love poems -- Transcendental etude -- From A wild patience has taken me this far: poems, 1978-1981 -- Integrity -- Transit -- For memory -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- The spirit of place: v -- Turning the wheel: 8 -- From Your native land, your life: poems -- Sources -- North American time -- Upcountry -- In the wake of home -- Poetry: I -- Poetry: III -- Yom Kippur 1984.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Contradictions, tracking poems: 3, 6, 7, 18, 26, 28, 29 -- From Time's power: poems, 1985-1988 -- Solfeggietto -- The desert as garden of paradise: 1, 4, 9, 11 -- Delta -- 6/21 -- Dreamwood -- Living memory -- Turning: 5 -- From An atlas of the difficult world: poems, 1988-1991 -- An atlas of the difficult world -- Eastern war time: 10 -- Tattered Kaddish -- Darklight: II -- Final notations -- Poetry and experience: statement at a poetry reading -- When we dead awaken: writing as re-vision -- Vesuvius at home: the power of Emily Dickinson -- Women and honor: some notes on lying -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence -- Split at the root: an essay on Jewish identity -- Blood, bread, and poetry: the location of the poet -- The genesis of "Yom Kippur 1984" -- Adrienne Rich: an interview with David Montenegro -- Swarthmore College commencement: June 1, 1992 -- Foreword to A change of world / W. H. Auden -- Tradition and talent / John Ashbery -- Review of Diving into the wreck / Margaret Atwood -- Adrienne Rich: the poetics of change / Albert Gelpi -- Ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds / Helen Vendler -- "Reconstituting the world": the poetry and vision of Adrienne Rich / Judith McDaniel -- Review of The dream of a common language / Olga Broumas -- "Disloyal to civilization": the Twenty-one love poems of Adrienne Rich / Adrian Oktenberg -- Self-reflection as action: the recent work of Adrienne Rich / Charles Altieri -- Adrienne Rich, North America east / Terrence Des Pres -- "Driving to the limits of the city of words": the poetry of Adrienne Rich / Willard Spiegelman -- The poetics of recovery: a reading of Adrienne Rich's Sources / Albert Gelpi -- "Of woman born": Adrienne Rich and the feminist sublime / Joanne Feit Diehl -- Adrienne Rich: a chronology.

Presents an annotated selection of poems and prose writings by twentieth-century American author Adrienne Rich, and includes thirteen reviews and interpretations of her work.