The dream of a common language Poems, 1974-1977

Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012

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Published
New York : Norton c1978.
Language
English
Main Author
Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012 (author, -)
Item Description
"Twenty-one love poems": p. 25-36.
Physical Description
77 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780393346008
9780393045024
  • I. Power
  • Power
  • Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev
  • Origins and History of Consciousness
  • Splittings
  • Hunger
  • To a Poet
  • Cartographies of Silence
  • The Lioness
  • II. Twenty-One Love Poems
  • I. Wherever in this city, screens flicker
  • II. I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming
  • III. Since we're not young, weeks have to do time
  • IV. I come home from you through the early light of spring
  • V. This apartment full of books could crack open
  • VI. Your small hands, precisely equal to my own
  • VII. What kind of beast would turn its life into words
  • VIII. I can see myself years back at Sunion
  • IX. Your silence today is a pond where drowned things live
  • X. Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through
  • XI. Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes
  • XII. Sleeping, turning in turn like planets
  • XIII. The rules break like a thermometer
  • XIV. It was your vision of the pilot
  • (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)
  • XV. If I lay on that beach with you
  • XVI. Across a city from you, I'm with you
  • XVII. No one's fated or doomed to love anyone
  • XVIII. Rain on the West Side Highway
  • XIX. Can it be growing colder when I begin
  • XX. That conversation we were always on the edge
  • XXI. The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones
  • III. Not Somewhere Else, But Here
  • Not Somewhere Else, but Here
  • Upper Broadway
  • Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
  • Nights and Days
  • Sibling Mysteries
  • A Woman Dead in Her Forties
  • Mother-Right
  • Natural Resources
  • Toward the Solstice
  • Transcendental Etude