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ISBN-10: 0393327558
ISBN-13: 9780393327557
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 01/01/2006
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.28" W, 0.40" H

The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

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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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"[The School Among the Ruins] makes acute observations about language, American identity, and the catastrophes of war. Whether lamenting the garishness of modern culture or condemning the war on terror, Rich remains a poet of impeccable principle and unwavering conscience."
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ISBN-10: 0393327558
ISBN-13: 9780393327557
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 01/01/2006
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.28" W, 0.40" H
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