The School Among the Ruins

In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("Not of course here") learn amid violence and hatred, "when the whole town flinches / blood on the undersole thickening to glass." "Usonian Journals 2000" intercuts faces and conversations, building to a dystopic/utopic vision. Throughout these fierce and musical poems, Rich traces the imprint of a public crisis on individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself held to account.

• Author
• Adrienne Rich

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 112

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393327557

• Genres
• poetry, feminism, american, literature

• Release date
• 2006