Two Poems
by Adrienne Rich • from Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971-2012 • W. W. Norton
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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the National Book Award, the Bollinger Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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