Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968 by Adrienne Rich - 2069-03-16

Norton & Company Limited, W. W. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

W. W. Norton & Company. 1969. Later Printing Used. Paperback. Very Good. In pictorial wraps, 8vo, unpag.

W. W. Norton & Company, March 1969. Trade Paperback. VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners a bit bumped, some creasing/scuffing/wear to covers. binding is straight and tight with no marks to text or other serious flaws. spine and cover somewhat sun faded.

W. W. Norton & Company , pp. 79 4th Edition . Papeback. New.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1969. Paperback. New. 72 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.25 inches.

New. The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation. Miss Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it-that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover-literally-this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action."

Paperback / softback. New. Leaflets is Adrienne Rich's fifth book of poems. It contains twenty-eight new poems, five adaptations of Dutch, Yiddish, and Russian poets, and a sequence of seventeen poems loosely based on the ghazal, a common form in Middle Eastern poetic tradition; these ghazals comprise a kind of notebook of a month in the summer of 1968.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1969-03-17. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!