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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393310337
ISBN: 0393310337
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: April 17, 1993
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Studio: W.W. Norton & Co.
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This collection of poems from 1974 to 1977 is written by one of America's most successful and most moving modern poets. By the author of An Atlas of the Difficult World. Reprint.
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I've never left a review here before, but I feel compelled to on this one. I first discovered Adrienne Rich through a college class (focused on 20th century works by women), and at first I did groan a bit, not being a real avid fan of poetry. But I ended up reading this book in it's near entirety before the class even began. The first poem I randomly flipped open to was one of the 21 love poems, I believe, and it made me cry the first time I read it (and probably all the subsequent times as well). ... Read More
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Rich, textured, honest, hard, open, The Dream of a Common Language is poetry at its most accomplished. Adrienne Rich appears to tap into the very deepest core of the human psyche here, creating a range of poems about love and loss which have a vast reach of expression and depth. For the fan of contemporary poetry, this is a collection which must be read and re-read.
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this book changed my life. it's so inspiring to see a feminist poet as rich DO what she does. it's sincere, it's powerful, it's not plath, it's personal, it calls every woman's name to feel something, to identify, and to wonder what her place is in the world. The 2nd section within the book, 21 love poems is the most romantic thing I've ever read, by far.
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I sat in a cushy green chair at Barnes and Noble reading these poems by Adrienne Rich and something unexplainable - almost impossible to put words to - happened to me.
I connected deeply to her messages, the words she wrote when I was a teen, might as well have been written right in the here and now. A lone tear slid down my face as I read about a woman in her 40's, like me, who was dying, not like me, who had a friend, like me, who wasn't sure how to support her in her time of need, ... Read More
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Years ago I was trying to keep warm at an MBTA bus stop where I read the opening lines of "The Dream of a Common Language" on a poster that advertised a reading and discussion by the author at Brandeis. I was moved to tears. I didn't get to Brandeis, but I bought and still cherish the book.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393310337
ISBN: 0393310337
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: April 17, 1993
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Studio: W.W. Norton & Co.