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Title: An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Cecile Rich ISBN: 0-393-30831-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "There are roads to take."
Comment: I have revisited this book many times since it was published ten years ago. In her 13-poem collection, Rich turns her penetrating poet's gaze to "the difficult world"--malathion strawberries (p. 3), missiles in the desert (p. 5), silence (p. 10), car graveyards (p. 11), waste (p. 11), Wounded Knee, Los Alamos, Selma (p. 12), death on the Appalachian Trail (p. 14), and loneliness (p. 19). These are not "feel-good" poems, and the title poem is stronger than others.
"These are not the roads you know me by," she writes in her Whitman-like title poem, "but the woman driving, walking, watching from life and death is the same" (p. 5). As these poems reveal, Rich writes with stunning honesty from her heart, soul, and the marrow of her bones (p. 51).
G. Merritt
Rating: 5
Summary: The signal work of an important American poet
Comment: I'm surprised no substantial reviews of *Atlas* have been posted, as anyone who has read it knows that Rich's survey of American life during the Gulf War era (in the title poem) is an unforgettable document of our time. Rich is known as a feminist writer and radical critic, and that impression scares off undergraduates for whom feminism is too loaded a term. This book, especially the title poem, "Eastern War Time," and "Tattered Kaddish," shows that Rich's feminist insight does not limit her attention--or relevance--to women subjects and readers.
Many lines from "An Atlas of the Difficult World" stay with me, but from its final section, I'll give this as an example of how Rich strives to find in her readers equal partners, sharing her task of representing all of American life:
I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I want to know which words they are... I know you are reading this poem because there is nothing else left to read there where you have landed, stripped as you are.
Rich sees her readers as stripped of innocence, of the ability to make casual assumptions about their lives in America and the world. But these poems offer the gift of understanding our current state, and of a beautiful, surprisingly generous description of us all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very touching...
Comment: It is a touching example of poetry expressing life's struggles. Anyone can relate to Rich's amazing words and thoughts. Please give this book a try!
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Title: Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich ISBN: 0393046826 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Cecile Rich ISBN: 0393311635 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977 by Adrienne Cecile Rich ISBN: 0393310337 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, Expanded Edition by Adrienne Cecile Rich ISBN: 0393312461 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems, 1991-1995 by Adrienne Cecile Rich ISBN: 0393313980 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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