The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

Author/Contributor(s):	Rich, Adrienne Cecile
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	01/01/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.