The School among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

"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...