The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich, W. W. Norton & Company
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Author: Adrienne Rich ISBN: 9780393070774
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: January 17, 2006
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Adrienne Rich
ISBN: 9780393070774
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: January 17, 2006
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

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

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

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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