Cynthia Haven

Biography

Cynthia Haven has published in the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, World Literature Today, the Kenyon Review, and the online Poetry Foundation magazine. Her books include An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesaw Miosz (Ohio UP, 2011) and Joseph Brodsky: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2003). She has been a Milena Jesenská Fellow with Vienna’s Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.

See Work

CRITICISM / Summer 2013

The Suffering of Others: On Adrienne Rich

By Cynthia Haven

Rich championed just about every major liberal social cause of our time—​human rights, gay rights, feminism, and environmental reform. Sometimes Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971–​2012 reads like a diary of them.