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Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (2004), Edition: First, Hardcover, 114 pages
Description
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.
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 2004)
Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards (Gold Medal — Poetry — 2004)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Poetry — 2004)
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry — 2005)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Poetry — 2004)
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114 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
0393059839 / 9780393059830
Local notes
OCLC = 46
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Other editions
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich (Paperback)