Adrienne Rich

The Fact of a Doorframe

A reissue of the classic Adrienne Rich selection, revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career, with a new Introduction.

The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).

"Rich's poems, volume after volume, have been the makings of one of the authentic, unpredictable, urgent, essential voices of our time."—W. S. Merwin

"[H]er dialectic fire produces poems of transcendent beauty."—New York Times Book Review

"Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters."—Nadine Gordimer