![]() Rich believed that art and politics should not be separate and considered herself a socialist. She used her experiences as a mother to write "Of Woman Born," her ground-breaking feminist critique of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, published in 1976. She and her husband had three sons before she left him in 1970, just as the women's movement was exploding on the national scene. ![]() ![]() Citing the title poem, University of Maryland professor Rudd Fleming wrote in The Washington Post that she "proves poetically how hard it is to be a woman. She had first gained national prominence with her third poetry collection, "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law," in 1963. In 2004, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for her collection "The School Among the Ruins." She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems "Diving into the Wreck" in 1974. Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. ![]()
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