Reviews for The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

The average rating for The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-22 00:00:00 Ira Rummells This feels so relevant, it could have been written yesterday.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-14 00:00:00 Gary Leach The School Among the Ruins is a collection which gathers together the poetry which Adrienne Rich wrote between 2000 and 2004. It is split into eight sections. I greatly admire the interesting uses which Rich makes of vocabulary. Her poetry here is fierce and direct, strong, and poignant. From 'This Evening Let's': 'Too many reasons not to waste a rainy evening' From 'Livresque': 'There hangs a space between the man and his words like the space around a few snowflakes just languidly beginning.' From 'Livresque': 'writing agape, agape, with a silver fountain pen' From 'Point in Time': 'This is the point in time when she must re-condense her purpose like ink, like rain, like winter light' From 'Memorize This': 'Night melts one body into another' From 'After Apollinaire & Brassens': 'when the Bridge of Arts trembles under the streaked sky when words of the poets tumble into the shuddering stream where who knew what joy would leap after what pain'