In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Throughout these fierce and musical poems, R.
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.
In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century