What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)America's enduring poet of conscience reflects on the proven and potential role of poetry in contemporary politics and life. Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11 "Six Meditations in Place of a Lecture." |
Contents
Dearest Arturo | |
Those two shelves down there | |
As if your life depended on | |
Moment of proof | |
History stops for no one | |
The transgressor mother | |
A communal poetry | |
The distance between language and violence | |
Not how to write poetry but wherefore | |
Rotted names | |
A poets education | |
The space for poetry | |
How does a poet put bread on the table? | |
The muralist | |
The hermits scream | |
A leak in history | |
Someone is writing a poem | |
Beginners | |
The real not the calendar twentyfirst century | |
A clearing in the imagination | |
What is an American life? | |
Common terms and phrases
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