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Adrienne Rich, Dark Fields of the Republic (New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995).
Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1993).
Adrienne Rich, Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1986).
Mary Oliver, Thirst, (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006).
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1992).
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October 20
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Ethical Activism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver
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Linda Bolton
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Linda Bolton is Associate Professor in English at the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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“Ethical Activism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver" will consider the ethical imperatives in the work of nationally acclaimed poets, Adrienne Rich and Pulitzer-prize winner, Mary Oliver. Awarded the National Medal of Honor in the Arts by President Bill Clinton, Rich refused the accolade, no doubt fearing that the ethical and political critique of her work would be forever compromised through its affiliation with a particular political agenda. Winning the Pulitzer for poetry in 1983, Oliver-whose work celebrates the majestic, yet endangered beauty of the natural world--has repeatedly been dismissed by literary critics as the female "imitator" of her Romantic predecessors (Whitman, Wordsworth, Emerson, et al.), or as a living version of the poet-hippie, disconnected from the "real" world, as she travels the woods and ponds of New England in search of beauty, truth and solace. Oliver's critics have not been especially good readers, for her poetry challenges us, as citizens and as individuals, to "pay attention" to the ecological and planetary crisis that faces us.
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