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Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. To read the first two installments visit these links: Part I and Part II. The ice caps are melting: criticism has failed....

Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

I Woke Up and it was political I made coffee and the coffee was political I took a shower and the water was.                      ...

At the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Hilary Holladay's forthcoming [Next week!] biography of Adrienne Rich, The Power of Adrienne Rich (Nan A. Talese).

There is no language in this world in which I am not a stranger, entering in from the outside.

Clancy Martin takes Adrienne Rich's 1995 book, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (Norton), for a spin in Bookforum's summer issue.

How broad can something be; how much can a form hold before the form is compromised; how inclusive can a poem, a movement, an insurrection be before its “aim” is...

The poem dares to think, perform, articulate a possibility, a contradiction—that in order for the imagined future to exist, it must risk its annihilation, its discontinuance.

Like sexual preference, textual preference occurs at the intersection of needs, desires, and the political realm of language.

At the New York Times, Craig Morgan Teicher explores two recently-published volumes compiling work by Adrienne Rich. Teicher explains, "Rich came to consciousness as a poet — and person — of...