Adrienne Rich's Deciphering Flame

This article considers Adrienne Rich's layered use of metaphor and enthymeme in an effort to unfold the rhetorical turns Rich employed in her post-1980s poetry. Through her later poems and essays, Rich revealed the inequities marking her contemporary times, while providing a map for understandi...

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Published in:The Arizona quarterly 2022-09, Vol.78 (2), p.99-120
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