Full name: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

Author: Adrienne Rich Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780393310375 039331037X

"The strongest reasonfor giving woman all the opportunitiesfor higher education, for the full development of her forces of mind and body...the most enlarged freedom of thought and actiona complete emancipationfrom all the crippling influences of fear-is the solitude and personalresponsibilityof her own individual life."For a long time, a very long time in fact, my favorite poet was D.H. Lawrence. When I was nineteen, I remember reading the poem 'Medlars and Sorb Apples' and just completely and utterly fell in love with his writing, his way of describing things, his words. (And if you love poetry, actually go read this poem. It's delicious and sinful!) He remained lodged in the number one spot in my heart for over ten years...until reading the poetry of Adrienne Rich. Her strong and intense writing style, mixed lavishly with drop dead gorgeous prose and utterly heartrending emotion just swept me away. And I instantly and forever changed my favorite poet status to Adrienne Rich! ;) Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell