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School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

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Title: School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Author: Adrienne Rich
ISBN: 9780393059830
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: F First Edition Used
Number of Pages: 120
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.