The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393327557

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by Adrienne Cecile Rich (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 116

Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.2 x 5.28 IN

Publication Date: January 01, 2006

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