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This paper explores how Adrienne Rich’s major poems of the 1990s, An Atlas of the Difficult World and Midnight Salvage, illuminate national identity and individual lives in the crisis of global capitalism. The politics of intersectionality provides a critical framework for understanding Rich’s late poetry, revealing how aspects of a person’s social and political identity combines to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Rich’s late poetry critiques American society through the intersection of social, racial and sexual inequality. Consciously fusing poetry and politics, Rich’s poems pay attention to human suffering, exploitation and general indifference toward isolated people. In particular, her poetry expresses pity for the wounded, the downtrodden, and the abused. Deploying social injustice, repression and violence from the viewpoint of intersectionality, Rich asks the reader to have an involuntary emotional connection to other human beings. Rich’s poetry sheds new light on the importance of empathy in constructing a sense of global responsiveness and responsibility in the age of posthumanism.
