Tonight no poetry will serve : poems, 2007-2010 /

Tonight no poetry will serve : poems, 2007-2010 /

Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Waiting for rain, for music
  • Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time
  • Benjamin revisited
  • Innocence
  • Domain
  • Fracture
  • Turbulence
  • Tonight no poetry will serve
  • II. Scenes of negotiation
  • III. From sickbed shores
  • IV. Axel Avákar
  • Axel: backstory
  • Axel, in thunder
  • I was there, Axel
  • Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house
  • V. Ballade of the poverties
  • Emergency clinic
  • Confrontations
  • Circum/Stances
  • Winterface
  • Quarto
  • Don't flinch
  • Black locket
  • Generosity
  • VI. You again
  • Powers of recuperation.