The School Among the Ruins: Poems, 2000-2004
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 113pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A presentable first printing of the work of the iconic poet.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
"Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred review
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.(Publisher). Very good / very good. Item #15305
ISBN: 0393059839
Price: $30.00