Her Jewish father was a doctor and professor of pathology at John Hopkins Medical School, and her southern Protestant mother was a skilled pianist and “lost composer,” who had abandoned her professional aspirations to raise a family. On May 16, 1929, Adrienne Cecile Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Helen Jones and Arnold Rich. – from “Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts” A government tending further and further away from the search for democracy will see less and less "use" in encouraging artists, will see art as obscenity or hoax. In continually rediscovering and recovering the humanity of human beings, art is crucial to the democratic vision.
– from the Foreword to The Fact of a DoorframeĪrt is our human birthright, our most powerful means of access to our own and another's experience and imaginative life. One task of the nineteen- or twenty-year-old poet who wrote the earliest poems here was to learn that she was neither unique nor universal, but a person in history, a woman and not a man, a white and also Jewish inheritor of a particular Western consciousness, from the making of which most women have been excluded. Adrienne Rich: The Poetic/Political Convictions of a (Former) Daughter-in-Law
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