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A potency of words.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online - approximately 789 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A potency of words.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

By Adrienne Rich

W.W. Norton

ISBN 0-393-05983-9

HB, $22.95, 114 pp.

In her new collection of poems, The School Among the Rums, Adrienne Rich navigates through the tangled, chaotic morass that marks the beginning of the new American millennium: the cold shock of terrorism, the outrage of war that seeps through the fiber of our days, the impotence of art, the inadequacies of language, the ways in which we don't communicate with each other and the ultimate urgent necessity to keep trying.

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Rich is a poet's poet--a master of oblique metaphor that nonetheless has the potential to jar the casual reader of poetry with astounding recognition, albeit often...

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