The School Among the Ruins - Poems 2000-2004

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.

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.

Summary

"Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred review

Product details

• Authors: Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Rich Adrienne
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2006
• EAN: 9780393327557
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32755-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 158 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets