“This absolutely exquisite selection of a major poet’s best poetry is a tribute to both her and the editors as well as a deep service to literate humanity.” ―ALBERT WACHTEL, Pitzer College “I do use your edition of Rich each time I teach my women writers course. It’s essential!” ―JOELLEN DELUCIA, Central Michigan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: • Generous selections of poetry and prose from the entire oeuvre of one of America’s most influential poets. • An introduction and explanatory annotations by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, Albert Gelpi, and Brett Millier. • Fifteen reviews and critical commentaries, nine of them new to the Second Edition, carefully chosen as a guide to Adrienne Rich’s poetics―and to her poetics as related to politics―ranging from W. H. Auden’s 1951 response to her first book to critics’ reviews of the magisterial Collected Poems in 2016. • A Chronology, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format―annotated text, contexts, and criticism―helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.