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The School Among the Ruins

by Adrienne Rich
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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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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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  • Release date: July 29, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780393070774
  • File size: 676 KB
  • Release date: July 29, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780393070774
  • File size: 676 KB
  • Release date: July 29, 2015

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Fiction Poetry

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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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Fiction Poetry