Waiting for the Poetry
Ange Mlinko: Was Adrienne Rich a poet?, 15 July 2021
The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography
by Hilary Holladay.
Doubleday, 416 pp., £25, November 2020,978 0 385 54150 3 Show More
by Hilary Holladay.
Doubleday, 416 pp., £25, November 2020,
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 345 pp., £13.99, May 2021,978 0 393 54142 7 Show More
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 345 pp., £13.99, May 2021,
“... and activist with a more passionate following than most American poets can ever dream of. Hilary Holladay’s biography – the first – is pleasingly economical, condensing more than eight decades into four hundred pages. It is admiring and sympathetic, but occasionally cocks an eyebrow. Its timing couldn’t be better, as the full range of ... ”
