The School Among the Ruins

Adrienne Rich · 2004 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Poems written between 2000 and 2004 confront the attacks of 2001 and the war in Iraq, setting a teacher and her children against a bombed building and the habit of public forgetting. Rich's late style is spare, angry and fragmentary. A political lyric collection from an established poet, not a single narrative.

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