Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wards the end of the decade Rich joined the women's movement and declared herself a lesbian, incorporating her views on women's liberation into her poetry. Most recently, Rich's work has dealt with the light of the homeless...
...author of more than 14 volumes, including some prose works, Rich won the 1974 National Book Award for the Wreek. Refusing to accept the award as an individual, she co-accepted with poet Audre Lord in the name of all women...
...Rich won Guggenheim fellowships in 1952 and 1961, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters poetry award in 1961. Harvard named her Phi Beta Kappa poet...
...detailed, exotic scenarios which somehow manage to seem plausible without losing any of their fantastical quality. Each character is more eccentric than the fast, but instead of seeking like stylized brats seeking to be unconventional, they appear completely natural in their pursuit of oddities. Instead of pretension one finds rich, imaginative episodes, bordering on fantasy...
...prose itself is rich and carefully crafted, and it includes some amazing turns of phrase which must be read in context to be fully appreciated. Along the way there are a series of (apercus) of varying profundity. Eberstadt is an accute observer of the intellectual and social snobbery which prevails among the wealthy young. Mocking the common assumption that to be sophisticated is to be blase, unflappable, Jem says, "It's not glamorous not to be shocked. It's autistic." (The pun on artistic should not be lost on those who have ever tried this route to social chic...