An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 / Adrienne Rich
First Edition Hardcover New York : W.W. Norton, 1991
Book Publishing Details
| Author: | Rich, Adrienne 1929-2012 |
| Full title: | An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 / Adrienne Rich |
| Publisher: | New York : W.W. Norton, 1991 |
| Edition: | First Edition |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 0393030695 |
| EAN: | 9780393030693 |
| Book ID: | 398955 |
Comments & Item Features
First Edition. Language: English. ISBN: 0393030695. EAN: 9780393030693.
Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
Physical description; x, 60 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60). Lambda Literary Award, 1991. Contents; A dark woman, head bent, listening for something -- Here is a map of our country -- Two five-pointed star-shaped glass candelholders -- Late summers, early autumns, you can see something that binds -- Catch if you can your country's moment, begin -- A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine -- (The dream-site) Some rooftop, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled -- He thought there would be a limit and that it would stop him. He depended on that. -- On this earth, in this life, as I read your story, you're lonely -- Soledad.=f. Solitude, loneliness, homesickness; lonely retreat -- One night on Monterey Bay the death-freeze of the century -- What homage will be paid to a beauty built to last -- (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem -- She -- That Mouth -- Marghanita -- Olivia -- Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943 -- Girl between home and school -what is that girl -- How telegrams used to come: ring -- What the grown-ups can speak of-would you push -- A young girl knows she is young and meant to live -- A girl wanders with a boy into the woods -- A woman of sixty driving -- A woman wired in memories -- Streets closed, emptied by force-Guns at corners -- Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me -- Tattered Kaddish -- Through Corralitos Under Rolls of Cloud -- Showering after 'flu; stripping the bed -- If you know who died in that bed, do you know -- The light of outrage is the light of history -- She who died on that bed sees it her way -- For a Friend in Travail -- 1948: Jews -- Two Arts: I've redone you by daylight-Raise it up there and it will -- Darklight: Early day. Grey the air-When heat leaves the walls at last -- Final Notations. Subjects; Lesbians' writings, American ; Poetry. American poetry. Women poets, American 20th century. English poetry American writers 1945- Texts.
Check out our eBay shop! With over 250,000 hand-picked First edition, Antiquarian and out-of-print titles in an exhaustive range of subjects, there is sure to be something to catch the eye of the bibliophile, the avid researcher or the casual reader. With FREE (standard) WORLDWIDE SHIPPING as well, value is guaranteed!
Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
Physical description; x, 60 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60). Lambda Literary Award, 1991. Contents; A dark woman, head bent, listening for something -- Here is a map of our country -- Two five-pointed star-shaped glass candelholders -- Late summers, early autumns, you can see something that binds -- Catch if you can your country's moment, begin -- A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine -- (The dream-site) Some rooftop, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled -- He thought there would be a limit and that it would stop him. He depended on that. -- On this earth, in this life, as I read your story, you're lonely -- Soledad.=f. Solitude, loneliness, homesickness; lonely retreat -- One night on Monterey Bay the death-freeze of the century -- What homage will be paid to a beauty built to last -- (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem -- She -- That Mouth -- Marghanita -- Olivia -- Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943 -- Girl between home and school -what is that girl -- How telegrams used to come: ring -- What the grown-ups can speak of-would you push -- A young girl knows she is young and meant to live -- A girl wanders with a boy into the woods -- A woman of sixty driving -- A woman wired in memories -- Streets closed, emptied by force-Guns at corners -- Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me -- Tattered Kaddish -- Through Corralitos Under Rolls of Cloud -- Showering after 'flu; stripping the bed -- If you know who died in that bed, do you know -- The light of outrage is the light of history -- She who died on that bed sees it her way -- For a Friend in Travail -- 1948: Jews -- Two Arts: I've redone you by daylight-Raise it up there and it will -- Darklight: Early day. Grey the air-When heat leaves the walls at last -- Final Notations. Subjects; Lesbians' writings, American ; Poetry. American poetry. Women poets, American 20th century. English poetry American writers 1945- Texts.
Check out our eBay shop! With over 250,000 hand-picked First edition, Antiquarian and out-of-print titles in an exhaustive range of subjects, there is sure to be something to catch the eye of the bibliophile, the avid researcher or the casual reader. With FREE (standard) WORLDWIDE SHIPPING as well, value is guaranteed!
Size of Item & Shipped Weight
Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram.
Keywords and Associated Terms
BZDB318 Unbranded ISBN: 0393030695 EAN: 9780393030693 Rich, Adrienne 1929-2012 An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 / Adrienne Rich