Your Native Land, Your Life

by Adrienne Rich

Book Overview

The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory Sources and Contradictions--Tracking Poems, an ongoing index of an American woman's life.

The poet writes, In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393310825
• ISBN13: 9780393310825
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"