The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“Adrienne Rich's new poems are important because they come so close to achieving the dream they're all at least partly about.The Dream of a Common Languageexplores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.” (Boston Evening Globe)