Leaflets: Poems, 1965-1968 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393041910)

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."

Author: Adrienne Cecile Rich
ISBN-10: 0393041913
ISBN-13: 9780393041910
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1969
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d