An Atlas of the Difficult World (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: History, North America or North Americans, Suffering, United States or Americans, Prisons, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nature, Social issues, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, New England, California, West, U.S., Human race, Spiritual life or spirituality, Beauty, Native Americans or American Indians, Immigration or emigration, Violence, Feminism, Women’s issues, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Criticism, Death or dying, Lifestyles, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, Environment or environmental health, Morality or morals, Maps, Holocaust
In AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD, America’s preeminent feminist poet and critic offers twenty-five poems written between 1988 and 1991. Visionary in content, elegiac in tone, and Whitmanesque in scope, the poems divide into two principal sections. The first consists of the thirteen-part title poem, which maps the physical and spiritual landscape of the United States, crisscrossing the country to capture its divergent elements and forge a link between the author’s personal past and the country’s current social and moral state. Much of the material focuses on the death of...
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