In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971 2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together a remarkable body of work. Included are Adrienne Rich s own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award winning Diving Into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her most recent volume, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, along with ten powerful new poems, previously uncollected. Among these, From Strata is a kind of archaeology of the present day; Itinerary searches for an...
In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971 2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. ...
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...
In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title...
Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and transformations. Beyond literary theories, she explores from many angles how the arts of language have acted on and been shaped by their creators worlds."
Across more than three decades Adrienne Rich s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich exami...
Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she s racked up. . . . The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material. Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chronicle"
Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels ...
The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman s heart and mind in language for everybody language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this. Boston Evening Globe"
The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman s heart and mind in language for everybody language whose plainness, laughter, questio...
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevai...
