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RICH  \nThe Fact of a Doorframe:Selected Poems 1950-2001  \nFox:Poems 1998-2000  \nArts of the Possible:Essays and Conversations  \nMidnight Salvage:Poems 1995-1998  \nDark Fields of the Republic:Poems 1991-1995  \nCollected Early Poems 1950-1970  \nAn Atlas of the Difficult World:Poems 1988-1991  \nTime's Power:Poems 1985-1988  \nBlood,Bread,and Poetry:Selected Prose 1979-1985  \nYour Native Land,Your Life:Poems  \nSources  \nA Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far:Poems 1978-1981  \nOn Lies,Secrets,and Silence:Selected Prose 1966-1978  \nThe Dream of a Common Language:Poems 1974-1977  \nTwenty-one Love Poems  \nOf Woman Born:Motherhood as Experience and Institution  \nPoems:Selected and New,1950-1974  \nDiving into the Wreck:Poems 1971-1972  \nThe Will to Change  \nLeaflets  \nNecessities of Life  \nSnapshots of a Daughter-in-Law  \nThe Diamond Cutters  \nA Change of World  \n  310    \nOF WOMANBORNMOTHERHOOD AS  \nEXPERIENCE AND INSTITUTION  \nW·W·NORTON &COMPANY·New York·London  \nCopyright G1986,1976 by W.W.Norton &Company,Inc.All rights reserved.Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from the following:Conditions.From\"On the Crevices of Anger\"by Nellie Wong in Conditions,3:52-57.Reprinted by permission.Lilly Engler.From the Third Elegy of the DuinoElegies,by Rainer Maria Rilke,translated by Lilly Engler.Reprinted by permission ofthe translator.Harper&Row.From\"Mother and Child\"in Like the Iris of an EyebySusan Griffin.Copyright by Susan Griffin.Reprinted by permission of Harper &Row,Publishers,Inc.,and the author.Hoosier Folklore.From“The Hanging of SamArcher,\"a folk poem reported,with music,in Hoosier Folklore,5(1946).Reprintedby permission.Edite Kroll.\"The Child,\"Part 4 of\"The Network of the ImaginaryMother,\"copyright C1976by Robin Morgan.Reprinted from Lady of the Beasts by  \nRobin Morgan,by permission of the author %Edite Kroll.David Meltzer.FromTo my grandmothersBirth,by David Meltzer,a verse translated by John A.Wilson.Reprinted by permis-sion of the author and North Point Press.W.W.Norton &Company,Inc.FromMary GravelyHattie Rice\"There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women\"in OurDead Behind UsbyAudre Lorde.Copyright C1986by W.W.Norton.Reprinted by permission.whose lives Ibegin to imagineSue Silvermarie.From \"To a Boy-Child,\"by Sue Silvermarie,which appeared inand to the activistsWomen:A Journal of Liberation.Copyright ◎1974.Reprinted by permission.SinisterWisdom Books.From AGathering of Spirit:Writing and Art by North Americanworking to free women's bodiesIndian Women edited by Beth Brant,Sinister Wisdom Books,Montpelier,VT,1984.Reprinted by pernission.Times Change Press.From a poem by Alta that appeared in  \nfrom archaic and unnecessary bondsMomma:A Start on all the Untold Stories,pp.72-73,copyright ◎1974by TimesChange Press.Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author.Norton paperback edition published 1986;reissued 1995Printed in the United States of AmericaLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataRich,Adrienne.Of woman bom.Includes index.  \n1.Motherhood.2.Mother and child.3.Feminism  \nI.Title.  \nHQ759.R53   1986  306.8^743  86-12687ISBN 0-393-31284-4W.W.Norton&Company,Inc.500 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10110www.wwnorton.comW.W.Norton &Company Ltd.  \nCastle House.75/76 Wells Street,London WIT 3QT90  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction:1986...ix  \nForeword...11  \nI Anger and Tenderness...21  \nII The“Sacred Calling”…41  \nII The Kingdom of the Fathers…56  \nIV The Primacy of the Mother.…84  \nV The Domestication of Motherhood...110  \nVI Hands of Flesh,Hands of Iron...128  \nVII Alienated Labor..156  \nVIII Mother and Son,Woman and Man..186  \nIX Motherhood and Daughterhood..218  \nX Violence:The Heart of Maternal Darkness.256Afterword...281Notes..287Index..305  \n...ma per trattar del ben ch'i vi trovai,diro dell'altre cose,ch'io v'ho scorte.  \n(...but to treat of the good that I found there,I will tell of other 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