A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008

by Adrienne Rich

Overview

“Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters.”—Nadine Gordimer

Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich’s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and transformations. Beyond literary theories, she explores from many angles how the arts of language have acted on and been shaped by their creators’ worlds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393338300
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/21/2010
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Thomas Avenas Dream of Order (1997) 1

Iraqi Poetry Today (2003) 6

Jewish Days and Nights (2003) 18

Muriel Rukeyser for the Twenty-first Century (2003) 34

The Baldwin Stamp (2004) 49

Three Classics for New Readers: Karl Mark, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara (2004) 57

Dialogue and Dissonance: The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov (2004) 70

The Voiceprints of Her Language (2005) 82

James Scully's Art of Praxis (2005) 91

Permeable Membrane (2005) 96

"Candidates for My Love": Three Gay and Lesbian Poets (2006) 100

Poetry and the Forgotten Future (2006) 123

"Knowing What City You're In, Who to Talk To": LeRoi Jones's The Dead Lecturer (2008) 147

Notes 165

Permissions 173

Index 177

Editorial Reviews

For all Rich s shepherding us toward compassion and solidarity with those who suffer violence and injustice, she never ceases to praise the mystery intrinsic to poetry and art. "

Only Rich can write essays that blend politics and poetry so effortlessly. "

Rich continues to refuse to separate the artistic from the political, and she articulates in powerful ways how a truly radical political agenda can draw upon an aesthetic vision . . . a vision both unsparing and full of hope. "

For all Rich 's shepherding us toward compassion and solidarity with those who suffer violence and injustice, she never ceases to praise the mystery intrinsic to poetry and art.

From the Publisher

For all Rich’s shepherding us toward compassion and solidarity with those who suffer violence and injustice, she never ceases to praise the mystery intrinsic to poetry and art.

Booklist

Rich continues to refuse to separate the artistic from the political, and she articulates in powerful ways how a truly radical political agenda can draw upon an aesthetic vision . . . a vision both unsparing and full of hope.

San Francisco Chronicle