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Poems 2000-2004 (Hardcover)♥ Add to Wishlist

by Adrienne Cecile Rich

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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. ... more

     

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      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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      • Media: Hardcover Book, 112 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (Sep. 30th, 2004)
      • ISBN-10: 0393059839
      • ISBN-13: 9780393059830
      • Dimensions: 6.28 x 8.42 x 0.63 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 0.64 lbs
      • Categories: General American Poetry

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