A Change of World

This reissue of Adrienne Rich’s first poetry collection reaffirms the author’s place as one of our most important American poets.

A Change of World was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of a poet whose work has been crucial to discussions of gender, race, and class, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.