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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (Paperback)

~ Adrienne Rich (Author)
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Adrienne Rich's new poems are important because they come so close to achieving the dream they're all at least partly about. The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this. (Boston Evening Globe )

Cartographies Of Silence
Hunger
The Lioness
Mother-right
Natural Resources
Nights And Days
Not Somewhere Else, But Here
Origins And History Of Consciousness
Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
Power
Sibling Mysteries
Splittings
To A Poet
Toward The Solstice
Transcendental Etude
Twenty-one Love Poems: 1
Twenty-one Love Poems: 10
Twenty-one Love Poems: 11
Twenty-one Love Poems: 12
Twenty-one Love Poems: 13
Twenty-one Love Poems: 14
Twenty-one Love Poems: 15
Twenty-one Love Poems: 16
Twenty-one Love Poems: 17
Twenty-one Love Poems: 18
Twenty-one Love Poems: 19
Twenty-one Love Poems: 2
Twenty-one Love Poems: 20
Twenty-one Love Poems: 21
Twenty-one Love Poems: 3
Twenty-one Love Poems: 4
Twenty-one Love Poems: 5
Twenty-one Love Poems: 6
Twenty-one Love Poems: 7
Twenty-one Love Poems: 8
Twenty-one Love Poems: 9
Twenty-one Love Poems: The Floating Poem, Unnumbered
Upper Broadway
A Woman Dead In Her Forties
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®


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This collection of poems from 1974 to 1977 is written by one of America's most successful and most moving modern poets. By the author of An Atlas of the Difficult World. Reprint.

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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (April 17, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393310337
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393310337
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this if you don't like poetry., October 14, 1997
By rgralow@aol.com (Christine Gralow; San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews
Adrienne Rich is a poet for everyone - especially those who say they don't like poetry - and the Dream of a Common Language is her most fascinating and accessible collection to date. Think poetry is boring, pretentious or hackneyed? Open up to "Love Poems" and find 32 sultry and pain-stakingly honest celebrations of lesbian love and urban survival. Rich has recently been receiving the wide recognition she deserves, and she will perhaps be the one to convince Americans to open their poetry books again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Emotional Catharsis through Poetry, August 29, 2007
I sat in a cushy green chair at Barnes and Noble reading these poems by Adrienne Rich and something unexplainable - almost impossible to put words to - happened to me.

I connected deeply to her messages, the words she wrote when I was a teen, might as well have been written right in the here and now. A lone tear slid down my face as I read about a woman in her 40's, like me, who was dying, not like me, who had a friend, like me, who wasn't sure how to support her in her time of need, universal.

I have experienced a lot of loss this year. The poetry of Adrienne Rich reached into my heart and let me express it more.

Isn't that what good poetry is supposed to be? A catalyst to awakening, cathartic, enriching?

Rich writes of power, female power.

She writes a poem about Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff (bride to Rainer Rilke, another favorite poet of mine.)

My favorite is "Transcendent Etude" which is, indeed, transcendent.

"No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make our lives a study..."

Study these poems and dive deeper into your life. You will not regret it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes even pain beautiful., August 21, 1997
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In The Dream of a Common Language, the poetry of Adrienne Rich reaches a realm of pure beauty. Rich cuts away the verbal excesses sometimes found in her other works and leaves the vibrant words to stand alone in their powerful simplicity. The reader finds herself emerged in the common language of love, pain, hope, and longing. Only when the final poem has been read, is she able to emerge, gasping, and view the world through vision forever altered by having seen through the eyes of Adrienne Rich
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I've never left a review here before, but I feel compelled to on this one. I first discovered Adrienne Rich through a college class (focused on 20th century works by women), and... Read more
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I had not read this poet's work. I bought this particular collection because it was highly recommended in the books by artist/author/poet Tee Corinne in `Courting Pleasure', `The... Read more
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