Outward Av Ed Pavlic

<P><B>The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships</B><BR/> </P><P>Adrienne Rich is best known as a feminist poet and activist. This iconic status owes especially to her work during the 1970s, while the distinctive political and social visions she achieved during the second half of her career remain inadequately understood. In <I>Outward</I>, poet, scholar, and novelist Ed Pavlic considers Rich’s entire oeuvre to argue that her most profound contribution in poems is her emphasis on not only what goes on “within us” but also what goes on “between us.” Guided by this insight, Pavlic shows how Rich’s most radical work depicts our lives—from the public to the intimate—in shared space rather than in owned privacy.</P><P>Informed by Pavlic’s friendship and correspondence with Rich, <I>Outward</I> explores how her poems pos