Comparing Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic "Sea"

Find a poet whose sense of self as a homosexual finds its way into the poems and compare their work to the poems of one poet we have read.  
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ADRIENNE RICH
Born 1929, resides in northern California
Attended Radcliffe College
Graduated 1951
A Change of World- selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
1953- married Alfred H. Conrad (Harvard Economist)
1955- published The Diamond Cutters (2nd poem book)
“The poet behind these poems cannot help but seem to us a sort of princess in a fairy tale”- Randall Jarrell
Had 3 sons before age 30
1960s- wrote several collections of poems
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963) self-exploration
Leaflets (1969)
Work became confrontational—
Themes of women’s role in society, racism, Vietnam war
1970- divorced husband
1973- feminist and civil rights movement, Vietnam War, personal distress
Diving into the Wreck (1973) self-exploration, angry
1974- won National Book Award
shared with fellow nominees:
  *   Alice Walker, Audre Lorde

PUBLISHED POEM COLLECTIONS
The Dream of a Common Language (1978)
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-1984 (1984)
Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989)
An Atlas of a Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991)
finalist for National Book Award
Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 (1993)
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (1995)
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (1999)
Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (2001)
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (2004)
won Book Critics Circle Award
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NONFICTION PUBLISHED PROSE
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1986)
What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics(1993)
Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (2001)
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LITERARY AWARDS
National Book Award
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Dorothea Tanning Prize (mastery in the art of poetry, AAP)
Wallace Stevens Award (mastery in the art of poetry, AAP)
MacArthur “Genius” Grant
Also awarded...