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Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice ...Show synopsisRich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children learn amid violence and hatred.Hide synopsis
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (W. W. Norton & Company) – Hardcover (2004)
by
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Hardcover, W. W. Norton & Company 2004
English
120 pages
ISBN: 0393059839 ISBN-13: 9780393059830
Adrienne Rich described as 'the elder stateswoman of American poetry' (Jeanette Winterson, The Daily Telegraph) here offers a new collection of passionately fierce yet musical poems. 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. Rich traces the imprint of a ...Show moreAdrienne Rich described as 'the elder stateswoman of American poetry' (Jeanette Winterson, The Daily Telegraph) here offers a new collection of passionately fierce yet musical poems. 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. Rich traces the imprint of a public crisis on individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself held to account.Hide
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