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by: Adrienne Rich
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780393327557
ISBN: 0393327558
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: January 09, 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 130030
Studio: W. W. Norton
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'Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right.'—Booklist, starred review
In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ('Not of course here') learn amid violence and hatred, 'when the whole town flinches / blood on the undersole thickening to glass.' 'Usonian Journals 2000' intercuts faces and conversations, building to a dystopic/utopic vision. Throughout these fierce and musical poems, Rich traces the imprint of a public crisis on individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself held to account.
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Rating:  - Rich continues to surprise...
In 1988 my ardent feminist girlfriend gave me a copy of "The Fact of a Doorframe" (the 1984 edition) and told me not to speak to her again until I finished reading it. This seemed an odd request, but since I really wanted to speak to her again, I read it. Rich's uncompromising passion not only moved me; it started a process that changed my view of the world and ended up changing my life. I guess you should expect that from a writer this powerful. She never fails to surprise me. This book is ... Read More
Rating: - A pearl cast before at least one swine
No greater poet exists. The School Among the Ruins is her best work in years--she is at the top of her game. This is taut, lyric poetry. Beautiful in form and thought. And, as always with Rich, informed by excellent ethics and motives. She is a poet who has successfully challenged social injustice with her poetry. She doesn't have to justify herself to anyone--certainly not the reviewer from Ohio--but I feel I must.
Rating:  - There's so much better out there...
Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins (Norton, 2004)
One of the blurbs on the jacket of Adrienne Rich's latest book proclaims Rich one of the poets whose every new book is cause for excitement. I can think of at least an hundred others for whom that should be true, and Rich is not one of them, especially if The School Among the Ruins is anything to go by.
It's obvious from some of the pieces here that Rich does know, or at least remember, that image should be the heart ... Read More
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