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The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001
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A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.
The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).Download the free Fable app

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Barkless Leh00tsky
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“An excellent collection rooted in an abundance of compassion and concern. Compels me to seek out the individual texts from which Rich pulls her selections (Charles Olson, Rene Char, and Cynthia Ozick)as well as read more poetry, more regularly.”

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“This year I fell in love with Adrienne's mind.”

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About Adrienne Rich
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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