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by: Adrienne Rich
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393065657
ISBN: 0393065650
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: October 15, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 437971
Studio: W. W. Norton
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A new volume from Adrienne Rich, recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth is one of Adrienne Rich's most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind 'Rhyme,' in the incantatory pattern of 'Behind the Motel,' in the voices from past and present in 'Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send,' in the dystopic scenes and intimate encounters of 'Draft # 2006,' in the mysterious negotiations of the title poem, the tempos and moods of this book constantly vary. Here, Rich draws on the artistic means of a lifetime.
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Rating:  - Adrienne Rich does it again.
Adrienne Rich---now in her late seventies---gives us another terrific book of poems dated 2004-2006. She returns to writing some formal verses, but free verse now seems her most natural form. She even tries some translations. This book is most interesting when she takes us effortlessly, it seems,from the personal to the political.
Rating:  - Hidden Jewels (and maybe hidden depths)
The poems here are more elliptical than Rich's early work with which I'm most familiar. Some are so dense as to be impenetrable, while others read like scattered fragments swept together into a jumble. In most, though, there's a phrase or two that shines out like a jewel. I suspect that their more hidden charms will become apparent on re-reading...
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