The fact of a doorframe : selected poems, 1950-2001 / Adrienne Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xvi, 327 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]

Summary:

The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Adrienne Rich's opus. In this new edition, Rich has reselected critical poems of her career and expanded the volume to include the six books she has completed since the original edition's publication in 1984. The result is the most comprehensive selection of Rich's work to date, from her formative lyricism in A Change of World (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).

Contents:

from A Change of World (1951)

Storm Warnings 3

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 4

Boundary 4

At a Bach Concert 5

from The Diamond Cutters (1955)

Ideal Landscape 9

Living in Sin 9

The Snow Queen 10

Letter from the Land of Sinners 11

from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)

from Morning-Glory to Petersburg 15

The Knight 16

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 17

Antinous: The Diaries 21

Peeling Onions 22

The Roofwalker 23

Prospective Immigrants Please Note 24

From Necessities of Life (1966)

Necessities of Life 29

In the Woods 31

The Trees 33

Like This Together 34

Night-Pieces: For a Child 36

"I Am in Danger

Sir

" 38

Mourning Picture 39

The Knot 40

Focus 41

From Leaflets (1969)

Orion 45

In the Evening 46

The Demon Lover 47

Jerusalem 50

Night Watch 52

For a Russian Poet 53

Abnegation 55

Implosions 56

On Edges 57

Leaflets 58

from Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib 63

7/12/68 The clouds are electric in this university 63

7/14/68: i In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice 63

7/14/68: ii Did you think I was talking about my life? 64

7/16/68: i Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever

64

7/16/68: ii When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed 65

7/26/68: i Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry 65

8/1/68 The order of the small town on the riverbank 66

8/4/68 If these are letters, they will have to be misread 66

8/8/68: i From here on, all of us will be living 67

8/8/68: ii A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design 67

from The Will to Change (1971)

November 1968 71

Study of History 72

Planetarium 73

The Burning of Paper Instead of Children 75

I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus 78

Letters: March 1969 79

The Stelae 83

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 84

from Shooting Script 85

from Diving into the Wreck (1973)

Trying to Talk with a Man 93

When We Dead Awaken 94

From the Prison House 96

The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One 97

Dialogue 100

Diving into the Wreck 101

Song 104

The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message 105

Rape 105

Burning Oneself In 107

From a Survivor 108

August 109

Uncollected Poems (1950-1974)

The Prisoners 113

At the Jewish New Year 113

Dien Bien Phu 115

Re-forming the Crystal 116

White Night 118

from an Old House in America 119

The Fact of a Doorframe 131

From The Dream of a Common Language (1978)

Power 135

Hunger 136

Cartographies of Silence 138

Twenty-One Love Poems 143

A Woman Dead in Her Forties 154

Natural Resources 160

from A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981)

Integrity 171

For Memory 173

For Ethel Rosenberg 174

Grandmothers 179

The Spirit of Place 181

Frame 187

from Your Native Land, Your Life (1986)

For the Record 193

Virginia 1906 194

For an Occupant 196

North American Time 197

Blue Rock 201

from Contradictions: Tracking Poems 203

1. Look: this is January 203

2. Heart of cold 204

3. My mouth hovers 204

6. Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight 205

7. Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain 205

10. Night over the great and the little worlds 206

11. I came out of the hospital 206

12. Violence as purification 207

14. Lately in my dreams 207

15. You who think I find words for everything 208

18. The problem, unstated till now 208

20. The tobacco fields lie fallow 209

22. In a bald skull sits our friend 209

23. You know the Government must have pushed them 210

26. You: air-driven reft 210

27. The Tolstoyans 211

29. You who think I find words for everything 211

from Time's Power (1989)

In a Classroom 215

The Novel 215

Children Playing Checkers at the Edge of the Forest 216

The Desert as Garden of Paradise 217

Delta 224

Dreamwood 224

Harpers Ferry 225

From An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991)

I A dark woman, head bent 233

II Here is a map of our country 235

IV Late summers, early autumns 236

V Catch if you can your country's moment 237

VII (The dream-site) 239

VIII He thought there would be a limit 239

IX On this earth, in this life 241

X Soledad. = f. Solitude, loneliness 242

XI One night on Monterey Bay 243

That Mouth 247

Marghanita 247

Tattered Kaddish 249

from Dark Fields of the Republic (1995)

What Kind of Times Are These 253

In Those Years 253

Calle Vision 254

Then or Now 261

Food Packages: 1947 261

Innocence: 1945 261

Sunset, December, 1993 262

Deportations 263

And Now 264

Late Ghazal 264

from Inscriptions 265

1 comrade 265

2 movement 266

4 history 267

6 edgelit 268

From Midnight Salvage (1999)

For an Anniversary 275

Midnight Salvage 275

Char 280

Letters to a Young Poet 282

Camino Real 286

Seven Skins 288

Rusted Legacy 292

from Fox (2001)

Veterans Day 297

Architect 302

Fox 303

Fire 304

Noctilucent Clouds 305

If Your Name Is on the List 306

1999 307

Four Short Poems 308

1 (driving home from Robin Blaser's reading) 308

2 We're not yet out of the everglades 308

3 Beethoven's "Appassionata" played 309

4 From the new crudities, from the old 309

Ends of the Earth 310.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0393323951

OCLC:

49844401