Includes a collection of verse by a National Book Award-winning poet, including the intimate address of Axel Avakar, the dark humor of Quarto, the underground journey of Powers of Recuperation and many more. By the author of The Fact of the Doorframe. Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels shes racked up. . . . The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material.Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chronicle Richs poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.Booklist
Recenzijos
"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve... pursues the kind of late style that asks us to know what came before - it has new and vivid ways to see the contest that has driven [ Rich] all along: on the one hand, the hope for solidarity; on the other, the artist whose words must stand alone." Stephen Burt, London Review of Books "Adrienne Rich - was one of the most influential and political American poets of the last century." The Guardian "This new collection, of pieces written between 2007 and 2010, reveals a supremely confident writer at work." Tribune
Daugiau informacijos
Short-listed for National Book Award 2011.
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Waiting for Rain, for Music |
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Reading the Iliad (As If) for the First Time |
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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve |
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Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house |
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Adrienne Rich (19292012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Awardwinning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.
