Rich, Adrienne (, 1929-2012)

Tonight no poetry will serve : poems, 2007-2010 / Adrienne Rich - 1st ed - New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , c2011. - 89 p. ; 22 cm.

I. Waiting for rain, for music -- Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time -- Benjamin revisited -- Innocence -- Domain -- Fracture -- Turbulence -- Tonight no poetry will serve -- II. Scenes of negotiation -- III. From sickbed shores -- IV. Axel Avákar -- Axel: backstory -- Axel, in thunder -- I was there, Axel -- Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house -- V. Ballade of the poverties -- Emergency clinic -- Confrontations -- Circum/Stances -- Winterface -- Quarto -- Don't flinch -- Black locket -- Generosity -- VI. You again -- Powers of recuperation.

Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.

9780393079678

2010034593


American poetry

PS3535.I233 / T66 2011

811.54 RIC