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Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
Adrienne Rich
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Description for Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
Paperback. "Rich's lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory." -San Francisco Chronicle Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
A new volume from Adrienne Rich, "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth" is one of her most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme", in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel", in the voices from past and present in "Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send", in the dystopic scenes and intimate encounters of "Draft No. 2006", in the mysterious negotiations of the title poem, the tempos and moods of this book constantly vary. Here, Rich draws on the artistic means of a lifetime.
A new volume from Adrienne Rich, "Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth" is one of her most unpredictable and evocative collections. In the folk/blues tradition behind "Rhyme", in the incantatory pattern of "Behind the Motel", in the voices from past and present in "Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send", in the dystopic scenes and intimate encounters of "Draft No. 2006", in the mysterious negotiations of the title poem, the tempos and moods of this book constantly vary. Here, Rich draws on the artistic means of a lifetime.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
110
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393334784
SKU
V9780393334784
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Ref
99-1
About Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.
Reviews for Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006
"Here are blues refrains, improvisations, and the sound of birdsong. Mixed in with poems about prison life, about torture, about Wallace Stevens, it forms a potent volume."