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Title

The fact of a doorframe : selected poems 1950-2001 / Adrienne Rich.

Author

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

327 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Poet Adrienne Rich presents works from throughout her career, from 1951's "Storm Warnings" to 2001's "Ends of the Earth."

Subjects

• American poetry
• Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• American poetry
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Storm Warnings -- Aunt Jennifer's Tigers -- Boundary -- At a Bach Concert -- Ideal Landscape -- Living in Sin -- The Snow Queen -- Letter from the Land of Sinners -- From Morning-Glory to Petersburg -- The Knight -- Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law -- Antinous: The Diaries -- Peeling Onions -- The Roofwalker -- Prospective Immigrants Please Note -- Necessities of Life -- In the Woods -- The Trees -- Like This Together -- Night-Pieces: For a Child -- "I Am in Danger -- Sir -" -- Mourning Picture -- The Knot -- Focus -- Orion -- In the Evening -- The Demon Lover -- Jerusalem -- Night Watch -- For a Russian Poet -- Abnegation -- Implosions -- On Edges -- Leaflets -- The clouds are electric in this university -- In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice -- Did you think I was talking about my life? -- Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever -- -- When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed -- Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry -- The order of the small town on the riverbank -- If these are letters, they will have to be misread -- From here on, all of us will be living -- A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design -- November 1968 -- Study of History -- Planetarium -- The Burning of Paper Instead of Children -- I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus -- Letters: March 1969 -- The Stelae -- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning -- from Shooting Script -- Trying to Talk with a Man -- When We Dead Awaken -- From the Prison House -- The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One -- Dialogue -- Diving into the Wreck -- Song -- The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message -- Rape -- Burning Oneself In -- From a Survivor -- August -- The Prisoners -- At the Jewish New Year -- Dien Bien Phu -- Re-forming the Crystal -- White Night -- From an Old House in America -- The Fact of a Doorframe -- Power -- Hunger -- Cartographies of Silence -- Twenty-One Love Poems -- A Woman Dead in Her Forties -- Natural Resources -- Integrity -- For Memory -- For Ethel Rosenberg -- Grandmothers -- The Spirit of Place -- Frame -- For the Record -- Virginia 1906 -- For an Occupant -- North American Time -- Blue Rock -- Look: this is January -- Heart of cold -- My mouth hovers -- Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight -- Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain -- Night over the great and the little worlds -- I came out of the hospital -- Violence as purification -- Lately in my dreams -- You who think I find words for everything -- The problem, unstated till now -- The tobacco fields lie fallow -- In a bald skull sits our friend -- You know the Government must have pushed them -- You: air-driven reft -- The Tolstoyans -- You who think I find words for everything -- In a Classroom -- The Novel -- Children Playing Checkers at the Edge of the Forest -- The Desert as Garden of Paradise -- Delta -- Dreamwood -- Harpers Ferry -- A dark woman, head bent -- Here is a map of our country -- Late summers, early autumns -- Catch if you can your country's moment -- (The dream-site) -- He thought there would be a limit -- On this earth, in this life -- Soledad. = f. Solitude, loneliness -- One night on Monterey Bay -- (Dedications) -- That Mouth -- Marghanita -- Tattered Kaddish -- Final Notations -- What Kind of Times Are These -- In Those Years -- Calle Vision -- Then or Now -- Food Packages: 1947 -- Innocence: 1945 -- Sunset, December, 1993 -- Deportations -- And Now -- Late Ghazal -- comrade -- movement -- history -- edgelit -- For an Anniversary -- Midnight Salvage -- Char -- Letters to a Young Poet -- Camino Real -- Seven Skins -- Rusted Legacy -- Veterans Day -- Architect -- Fox -- Fire -- Noctilucent Clouds -- If Your Name Is on the List -- 1999 -- (Driving home from Robin Blaser's reading) -- We're not yet out of the everglades -- Beethoven's "Appassionata" played -- From the new crudities, from the old -- Ends of the Earth.

ISBN

0393323951 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002141447 ^

OCLC

49844401

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library