No scene could be worse
Stephanie Burt: Adrienne Rich, 9 February 2012
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-10
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 89 pp., £19.99, February 2011,978 0 393 07967 8 Show More
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 89 pp., £19.99, February 2011,
A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society 1997-2008
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 180 pp., £11.99, July 2010,978 0 393 33830 0 Show More
by Adrienne Rich.
Norton, 180 pp., £11.99, July 2010,
“... Adrienne Rich’s new poems show qualities that almost require the label ‘late style’. They are made up of fragments, careless of finish and of audience. In technique, as well as in explicit subjects, they account for debilities and advancing years, which they also fiercely defy, and they look back so insistently to her earlier work that they may not seem designed to stand up on their own ... ”