Description

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The final volume of poems by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.

Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet. Included are Adrienne Rich’s own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her final volume, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, along with ten powerful new poems, previously uncollected. This collection testifies to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late twentieth century, and will continue to inspire readers for years to come.

About the Author

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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.

Praise For…

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She dreamed, famously, of a common language, and that is what she has left us with: language that made what was true, truer; what was small, bigger; what was silent, heard; what was fleeting, eternal.
— New York Times Magazine

“[Rich’s poems] shine with defiance, fierce commitment, introspection
and self-reproach, ‘hunger for clarity’ and ‘sour plum jam,’ majestic
coastlines and domestic detail. Here is a poet who knew her own contradictions,
determined to depict them accurately, and equally determined that she
would not write for herself alone.
— Stephen Burt - San Francisco Chronicle