{"product_id":"the-school-among-the-ruins-poems-2000-2004-9780393327557","title":"The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004","description":"In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children (\"Not of course here\") learn amid violence and hatred, \"when the whole town flinches \/ blood on the undersole thickening to glass.\" \"Usonian Journals 2000\" intercuts faces and conversations, building to a dystopic\/utopic vision. Throughout these fierce and musical poems, Rich traces the imprint of a public crisis on individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself held to account.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRich, Adrienne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/strong\u003e (1929-2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eDiving into the Wreck\u003c\/em\u003e, and more than a half-dozen of prose.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410975035666,"sku":"9780393327557","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d47c95ce-e061-4e0f-8a68-1e51100138b0.jpg?v=1729309615","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-school-among-the-ruins-poems-2000-2004-9780393327557","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}