Leaflets: Poems, 1965-1968

The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation. Miss Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it--that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover--literally--this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action."

• | Author: Adrienne Cecile Rich
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 1969
• | Number of Pages: 72 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0393041913
• | ISBN-13: 9780393041910