num_pages: 116
description: "Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."-- Booklist , starred review 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.
language: English
title: The School Among the Ruins
titlecomplete: The School Among the Ruins
genres: Feminism, Poetry, Literature, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 396
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: California Book Award
category: Poetry (Gold), awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Poetry, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company