Leaflets: Poems, 1965-1968

by Adrienne Rich

Book Overview

The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation.

Miss Rich has written: For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it--that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393041913
• ISBN13: 9780393041910
• Release Date: March 1969
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"