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by Adrienne Rich

You show me the poems of some woman, 388

  You sleep in a room with bluegreen curtains, 615

  You sleeping I bend to cover, 182

  You. There, with your gazing eyes, 562

  You’ve got ocean through sheet glass brandy and firelog, 1022

  You’ve got to separate what they signify from what, 907

  You were telling a story about love it was your story, 783

  You were telling a story about war it is our story, 784

  You were telling a story about women to young men It was, 783

  You who can be silent in twelve languages, 1039

  You who think I find words for everything (15), 648

  You who think I find words for everything (29), 656

  Z: I hated that job but You’d have taken it too if you’d had a family, 1059

  BY ADRIENNE RICH

  Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971–2012

  Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007–2010

  A Human Eye: Essays on Art and Society, 1997–2008

  Poetry & Commitment: An Essay

  Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004–2006

  The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000–2004

  What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

  The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950–2001

  Fox: Poems 1998–2000

  Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

  Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995–1998

  Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991–1995

  Collected Early Poems 1950–1970

  An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991

  Time’s Power: Poems 1985–1988

  Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985

  Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems

  Sources

  A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978–1981

  On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966–1978

  The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974–1977

  Twenty-One Love Poems

  Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

  Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974

  Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972

  The Will to Change: Poems 1968–1970

  Leaflets: Poems 1965–1968

  Necessities of Life

  Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954–1962

  The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems

  A Change of World

  Copyright © 2016, 2013 by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust.

  Copyright © 2011, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1999, 1995, 1991, 1989, 1986,

  1984, 1981, 1967, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956,

  1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951 by Adrienne Rich.

  Copyright © 1984, 1978, 1975, 1973, 1971, 1969, 1966

  by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Introduction © 2016 by Claudia Rankine

  All rights reserved

  First Edition

  Lines from “The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke from Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton. Copyright 1938 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed © 1966 by M. D. Herter Norton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Lines from “Bird on the Wire” excerpted from Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1993 Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Lines from “The Flowering of the Rod” by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), from Trilogy, edited by Norman Holmes Pearson. Copyright © 1997 by Carcanet Press. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press. Lines from “The Flowering of the Rod” by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), from Collected Poems, 1912–1944, copyright © 1944, 1945, 1946 by Oxford University Press, renewed 1973 by Norman Holmes Pearson. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Lines from “Como Presentaciön, Como Disculpa” by Georgina Herrera (and English translation) by permission of Margaret Randall. Lines from “Elogio de la Dialectica” by Nancy Morejón reprinted with permission from the author. Lines from “U.S. 1” by Muriel Rukeyser from The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005, used by permission of William L. Rukeyser.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, author.

  Title: Collected poems : 1950-2012 / Adrienne Rich.

  Other titles: Poems

  Description: First edition. | New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016009163 | ISBN 9780393285116 (hardcover)

  Classification: LCC PS3535 .I233 2016 | DDC 811/.54-dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016009163

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