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The School Among The Ruins: Poems 2000 2004

Adrienne Cecile Rich; Adrienne Rich

Synopsis:
A new work by a distinguished poet.
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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Other editions: Softcover - 2010, Softcover - 2002, 1996, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1994, Softcover - 1994, Softcover - 1993, 1991, Softcover - 1984, Hardcover - 1981