Research Catalog

Title

What is found there : notebooks on poetry and politics / Adrienne Rich.

Author

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

Publication

New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c2003.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xxi, 321 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"America's 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 reissue includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11 "Six meditations in place of a lecture.""--Jacket.

Subject

• Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Politics and literature
• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic

Genre/Form

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Note

• "With a new introduction and essay" -- Cover.
• "First published as a Norton paperback 1994" -- p. [vi]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes (p. [275]-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Woman and bird -- voices from the air -- "What would we create?" -- Dearest Arturo -- "Those two shelves, down there" -- As if your life depended on it -- The space for poetry -- How does a poet put bread on the table? -- The muralist -- The hermit's scream -- A leak in history -- Someone is writing a poem -- Beginners -- The real, not the calendar, twenty-first century -- "A clearing in the imagination " -- What is an American life? -- "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 poet's education -- To invent what we desire -- Format and form -- Tourism and promised lands -- What if? -- Six meditations in place of a lecture.

ISBN

0393312461

OCLC

• 53143330
• SCSB-12680541

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library