"The risk this book quietly takes, and impressively fulfills, is no less than to get life said.... Newly freed from the metrical conventions of her earlier books, Adrienne Rich has lost none of her perfect pitch for the tones of language itself." -Philip Booth, The Christian Science Monitor
"The risk this book quietly takes, and impressively fulfills, is no less than to get life said.... Newly freed from the metrical conventions of her earlier books, Adrienne Rich has lost none of her perfect pitch for the tones of language itself." -Philip Booth, The Christian Science Monitor
First published in 1963, this book is now restored to print in a new edition containing some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem.
Rich is a distinguished poet. She has published more than 16 volumes of poetry and five books of nonfiction prose over the last 40 years. She has received numerous awards, fellowships, and prizes, including the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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