Adrienne Rich (Voice of the Poet)
THE VOICE OF THE POET
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review.
"Hearing poetry spoken by the poet is always a unique illumination. This series opens our ears to some of the most passionate utterances and enthralling performances ever recorded."--Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winner, Poetry
"There has been a great need for a well-edited audio series for poetry, with high literary and technical quality. J. D. McClatchy has filled this need with great style."--Robert Pinsky
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review.
"Hearing poetry spoken by the poet is always a unique illumination. This series opens our ears to some of the most passionate utterances and enthralling performances ever recorded."--Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winner, Poetry
"There has been a great need for a well-edited audio series for poetry, with high literary and technical quality. J. D. McClatchy has filled this need with great style."--Robert Pinsky
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About the Author:
Adirenne Rich is a poet of rare power and commitment. Born in 1929, she was still a student at Radcliff when her first book of poems was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets series in 1951. Over the next two decades her ambitions deepened as she shaped her peoms into instruments of analysis and discovery. Her involvement in the political movements of the late 1960s eventually led her to a radical feminism, which is both an argument with the self and the effort, personal and poetic, to recover the power prior to patriarchy and its political oppressions. Whether writing about the fate of women in history or the drama of women loving women, she sees in her poems both the means of change and the "dream of the common language." She has published seventeen volumes of poetry, each of them driven, as she has said, by "a belief in art, not as a commodity, not as a luxury, not as a suspect activity, but as a precious resource to be made available to all."
From AudioFile:
Adrienne Rich's poetry has brought about "moral and political change in a society that has disenfranchised so many." From readings taped at different times in Rich's public life (1951 --2000), we hear the furiously energetic young woman, winner of the 1950 Yale Younger Poets Award, and the measured tones of an even more passionate, respected poet who urges us to "take women's existence seriously as a theme and source for art...." A companion book includes an introduction by J. D. McClatchy, a bibliography, the text of the poems in this compilation--some never before released--plus comments by the poet on poetry. Rich's work remains a revolutionary call to explore the "victimization and the anger experienced by women..." in order to break the boundaries imposed by the patriarchy of art. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherRandom House Audio
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0553714899
- ISBN 13 9780553714890
- BindingAudio CD
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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