Adrienne Rich, the woman who turned her verses into the vanguard of feminism

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Adrienne Rich, the woman who turned her verses into the vanguard of feminism

The life of the feminist poet and essayist Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) began as heteronormative, like that of most women of her time. She married Alfred Haskell Conrad, professor of Economics at Harvard, at 24, with the goal of escaping from her family and taking a first step towards independence, as Rich later acknowledged. However, as his thinking evolved, his life was transformed, in what was a very difficult exercise in coherence that took him…