These Essays trace a distinguished writer\'s engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others.
I learn from her again and again." Grace Paley". "The work is inspired and inspiring." Alicia Ostriker " S]o clear and clean and thorough.
Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts.
This volume collects Rich\'s Essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several Conversations that go further than the usual interview.
They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart.
The Essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society\'s hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes.
These Essays trace a distinguished writer\'s engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others
