You show me the poems of some woman, 388
You sleep in a room with bluegreen curtains, 615
You sleeping I bend to cover, 182
You. There, with your gazing eyes, 562
You’ve got ocean through sheet glass brandy and firelog, 1022
You’ve got to separate what they signify from what, 907
You were telling a story about love it was your story, 783
You were telling a story about war it is our story, 784
You were telling a story about women to young men It was, 783
You who can be silent in twelve languages, 1039
You who think I find words for everything (15), 648
You who think I find words for everything (29), 656
Z: I hated that job but You’d have taken it too if you’d had a family, 1059
BY ADRIENNE RICH
Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971–2012
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007–2010
A Human Eye: Essays on Art and Society, 1997–2008
Poetry & Commitment: An Essay
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004–2006
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000–2004
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950–2001
Fox: Poems 1998–2000
Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995–1998
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991–1995
Collected Early Poems 1950–1970
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991
Time’s Power: Poems 1985–1988
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985
Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems
Sources
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978–1981
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966–1978
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974–1977
Twenty-One Love Poems
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972
The Will to Change: Poems 1968–1970
Leaflets: Poems 1965–1968
Necessities of Life
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954–1962
The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems
A Change of World
Copyright © 2016, 2013 by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust.
Copyright © 2011, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1999, 1995, 1991, 1989, 1986,
1984, 1981, 1967, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956,
1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951 by Adrienne Rich.
Copyright © 1984, 1978, 1975, 1973, 1971, 1969, 1966
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Introduction © 2016 by Claudia Rankine
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Names: Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, author.
Title: Collected poems : 1950-2012 / Adrienne Rich.
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Description: First edition. | New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016009163 | ISBN 9780393285116 (hardcover)
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