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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 Hardcover – January 17, 2011

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Relationships―partings/reconciliations, solidarities/ruptures, trust/betrayal, exposure/withdrawal―are the deep fabric of this forceful work.

In the intimate address of "Axel Avákar," the black humor of "Quarto," and the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation," compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, "I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book."

from "Ballade of the Poverties"
     There's the poverty of wages wired for the funeral you
     Can't get to the poverty of bodies lying unburied
     There's the poverty of labor offered silently on the curb
     The poverty of yard sale scrapings spread
     And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on street
     Prince let me tell you who will never learn through words
     There are poverties and there are poverties.

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January 17, 2011
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5.8 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches
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0393079678
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Rich writes, “I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book.” The critically acclaimed poet of 30 books of poetry and prose fills her latest retrospective collection with poems that express an intimate understanding of life, death, and resilience with recurring images of ice, blood, and bodies. The opening poem, “Waiting for Rain, for Music,” dives in with “waiting for tomorrow / long after tomorrow / should’ve come.” This motif of regret builds to resignation in “From Sickbed Shores,” the book’s central poem, which asks, “what is it anyway to exist as / matter to / matter?” While writing of chronic illness, Rich offers wordplay redolent of her caustic wit and black humor and reminiscent of Plath. “Ballade of the Poverties,” a Prévert-like poem deviating in style from the book’s short-line, at times difficult, poems, speaks to timeless themes of injustice and ignorance and ends with the narrator offering the reader a mirror. Rich’s poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand. --Katharine Fronk

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Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century...attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she's racked up.... the events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material. --Sara Marcus"

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (January 17, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393079678
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393079678
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches

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Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) is an American poet, writer, feminist thinker, and activist in progressive causes. In a career spanning seven decades she wrote and published two dozen volumes of poetry and over a half-dozen of prose. Rich's poetry includes the collections Diving Into the Wreck, The Dream of a Common Language, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, An Atlas of the Difficult World, The School Among the Ruins, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth. Her prose work includes the collections On Lies, Secrets, & Silence; Blood, Bread, & Poetry; an influential essay, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and Of Woman Born, a scholarly examination of motherhood as a socio-historic construct. She received the National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for Diving Into the Wreck, and was a finalist an additional three times, in 1956, 1967, and 1991. Other honors include a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1994, the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award, and the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 1997 she turned down the National Medal for the Arts to protest the growing concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands, writing to the NEA that "anyone familiar with my work from the early Sixties on knows that I believe in art's social presence—as breaker of official silences, as voice for those whose voices are disregarded, and as a human birthright."

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Amazing & Difficult

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Rich here is experimental, amazing, inspirational, and difficult, for those interested in living politically aware in our era of greed. Rich still writes in a fragmented style and still thinks through emotion and ideas at the same time. While the title says No Poetry Will Serve, here poetry's power expresses, enlightens and acts as a balm (through insight and inventive zest). There are some weaker sections. For those who have not read Rich recently, Midnight Salvage (1995) and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (2007) are stronger collections, and maybe more helpful in understanding her point of view.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014

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I read this quickly. Enjoyed her brilliance - her militant stand - a powerful voice ...it gave me a taste of her writings and I will read it again. Thank you Adrienne Rich for your poetry - it makes my own words seem childlike & tinny.

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Abe

Poetry for contemporary art fans.

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2017

I don't get it. I probably never will. Just my humble opinion.

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Dr. Gail Grossman Freyne

should have been poet laureate.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2012

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This poet should have been awarded the honour of being poet laureate of the United States. This is her last work but all her work should be on your shelf.

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