by A Rich (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 14 Feb 2006
ISBN 10: 0393327558
ISBN 13: 9780393327557