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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011)

by Adrienne Rich(Favorite Author)
3.82 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
0393079678 (ISBN13: 9780393079678)
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English
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W. W. Norton & Company
review 1: It's a tragedy that I've only found out about this wonderful writer a mere month after she passed. Damn it all.This slim volume has some jarring phrases and turns of image which are stuck with me. They connect on an intellectual/analytical level as well as a deeply emotional one. History and myth and emotion and feeling.Need more. 89 pages is not enough, though they seem like much more, with what remains.
review 2: I connected to Rich's collection of poetry on an intellectual level, rather than an emotional one. I didn't so much melt into her words (as I do with some poetry), and read, re-read, and thought about it, trying to make the connections between one phrase, line, or stanza, to the next. Her lines a purposefully ragged, using blank space between lines a
... morend words more often than punctuation, and the tend to tumble into one another. Intellectual or otherwise, the writing is beautiful, and there are several passages and turns of phrase that linger in my thoughts long after I've read them. less
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chichi
god she is good so so so good, even when she's not that good she's still so good
muti
The Axel Avakar series is my favorite part of this collection.
andrew
I loved Quarto and Ballade of the Poverties.
nefi
I liked the poems about Axel Avakar.
allyhaundro
Breathe normally.
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