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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 Reissue Edition

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In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work.

At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."
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    0393312852
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    Reissue
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    W. W. Norton & Company
  5. Publication date
    April 17, 1995
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    English
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    5.5 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
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One of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists collect here some of her most important early prose writings. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is an extraordinary sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, 'playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language.' Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing.

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (April 17, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393312852
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393312850
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
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Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) is an American poet, writer, feminist thinker, and activist in progressive causes. In a career spanning seven decades she wrote and published two dozen volumes of poetry and over a half-dozen of prose. Rich's poetry includes the collections Diving Into the Wreck, The Dream of a Common Language, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, An Atlas of the Difficult World, The School Among the Ruins, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth. Her prose work includes the collections On Lies, Secrets, & Silence; Blood, Bread, & Poetry; an influential essay, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and Of Woman Born, a scholarly examination of motherhood as a socio-historic construct. She received the National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for Diving Into the Wreck, and was a finalist an additional three times, in 1956, 1967, and 1991. Other honors include a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1994, the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award, and the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 1997 she turned down the National Medal for the Arts to protest the growing concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands, writing to the NEA that "anyone familiar with my work from the early Sixties on knows that I believe in art's social presence—as breaker of official silences, as voice for those whose voices are disregarded, and as a human birthright."

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As with all of A Rich's books, I will be reading and rereading this for years. Always a poet, her passion and commitment to women never falters and always manages to shake my view of my life
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There is no one quite like Adrienne Rich who will be missed. Great book! Definitive essays for women.
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This story reminds me of life in my hometown of Ft. Madison, Iowa. They were both Industrial cities that lost their industries. But the situation in Troy, New York was much worse - half the town ended up in jail.

People will ask me "Why are you so interested in this horrible stuff?" All I can say is "Because that is the dark underground current, that is running our society. You have to look at the lower layers of iceberg, not at what is showing at the top."
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It is increasingly rare to find a book that deals with emotional as well as civic matters, things like honor,love, ethics. Beautifully written and food for thought.
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