| Description |
xxi, 321 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: c1993. With new introd. and essay. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-295) and index. |
| Contents |
Woman and bird -- voices from the air -- "What would we create?" -- Dearest Arturo -- "Those two shelves, down there" -- As if your life depended on it -- The space for poetry -- How does a poet put bread on the table? -- The muralist -- The hermit's scream -- A leak in history -- Someone is writing a poem -- Beginners -- The real, not the calendar, twenty-first century -- "A clearing in the imagination " -- What is an American life? -- "Moment of proof" -- "History stops for no one" -- The transgressor mother -- A communal poetry -- The distance between language and violence -- Not how to write poetry, but wherefore -- "Rotted names" -- A poet's education -- To invent what we desire -- Format and form -- Tourism and promised lands -- What if? -- Six meditations in place of a lecture. |
| Subject |
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
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Politics and literature.
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Poetry.
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