Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968

The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation.

Miss Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it-that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover-literally-this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action."

About the author

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

Product details

• Authors: Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Rich Adrienne
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780393041910
• ISBN: 978-0-393-04191-0
• Series: Poems, 1965-1968; Poems, 1965-1968
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets