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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780393334784
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393334783
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: May 04, 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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“Rich’s lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory.” —San Francisco Chronicle .
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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.
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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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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780393334784
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393334783
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: May 04, 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company