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One of a handful of major American poets whose every new work is a cause for excitement, Rich is...stunning in her use of skewed, penetrating language.

Library Journal

In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem evokes the lessons children learn amid violence and hatred, when the whole town flinches / blood on the undersole thickening to glass. Throughout these fierce and musical poems, Rich traces the imprint of public crisis upon individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself held to account.

Hardcover. 2004.