Dark fields of the Republic : poems, 1991-1995 / Adrienne Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 79 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected Proof.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [1995]

Summary:

"When does a life bend toward freedom? grasp its direction?" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment of both. The poems of Dark Fields of the Republic are a theater of voices: of men and women, the dead and the living, over time and across continents. Rich writes out of dreams and nightmares, conversations actual and imaginary, actions taken for better or for worse, out of histories and songs, humdrum and terrible events, the most intimate loves and love for the world.

Contents:

What kind of times are these: What kind of times are these

In those years

To the days

Miracle ice cream

Rachel

Amends

Calle vision: Not what you thought, just a turn-off

Calle Vision, sand in your teeth

Ammonia

Repetitive motions of slaughtering

You can call on beauty still and it will leap

In the room, in the house

In the black net

On the road there is a house

Reversion

Revolution in permanence (1953, 1993)

Then or now

Food packages, 1947

Innocence, 1945

Sunset, December, 1993

Deportations

And now

Sending love: Voice

Sending love, Molly sends it

Sending love is harmless

Terrence years ago

Take

Late Ghazal

Six narrative: You drew up the story of your life

Your drew up a story about me

You were telling a story about women to young men

You were telling a story about love

I was telling you a story about love

You were telling a story about war

From pierced darkness

Inscriptions: comrade

movement

origins

history

voices

edgelit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Poetry, Winner, 1996

OCLC:

911205527