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In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim—to discover—what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored.
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.159 Reviews
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“I was not expecting to like this collection of poems so much but Rich does a great job of creating these detailed expressions of both her anger at the state of the world and her own existence as a woman and a feminist.
My personal favourite were:
- Song
- Diving into the Wreck
- The Phenomenology of Anger
- Living in the Cave
- For the Dead
Nothing can be done
but by inches. I write out my life
hour by hour, word by word
gazing into the anger of old women on the bus
numbering the striations
of the air inside the ice cube
imagining the existence
of something uncreated
this poem
our lives - Incipience, 1971”
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“Stark, cathartic, almost-rageful poems published in the 70's. Mostly directed at the heteronormative status quo, but covers a range of topics from gender equality to Vietnam to ecological destruction to class discrimination. Great stuff, though a bit disjointed, and some of the pieces lose their edge when reading at a faster pace. However, that might speak more to my ability as a reader than Rich's poems.”
About Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) 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 Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.
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