ENGL 1201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Yale Series Of Younger Poets Competition, Adrienne Rich, Michelle Cliff
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Born to a well-off family (her father was a doctor, her mother a pianist) in baltimore; raised a. Protestant (her mothers religion); her father was jewish. Educated at radcliffe and made her poetry debut when a distinguished poet selected her for the prestigious yale younger poets series in 1951; she married an older professor and had three children during her early career. In the 1960s, she became involved in the protest movements (the new left) and her work became more explicitly political; her marriage ended and she later formed a life-long partnership with the writer michelle cliff. The rest of her life was spent teaching and writing, both poetry and essays on cultural and political themes; she died in 2012. The tragedy of sex lies around us, a woodlot the axes are sharpened for a man"s world. They themselves have sold it to the machines (walking in the.
