On Lies Secrets And Silence Paperback by Adrienne Rich

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (1995-04-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393312850
• Item Weight: 328.86 grams
• Dimensions: 20.83 x 13.87 x 2.18 cm

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."

About the Author

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.