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.
| ISBN: | 9780393327557 |
| Publication date: | 14th February 2006 |
| Author: | Adrienne Rich |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 116 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |