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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/2006
ISBN: 9780393327557
Pages: 113
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.28w x 0.40d