An Atlas of the Difficult World (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- 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
Form and Content
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 is Adrienne Rich’s thirteenth collection of poems. If her earlier volumes of poetry could be categorized as seeking a woman-identified aesthetic and defining the common languages and experiences of women, then this volume marks a departure, for Rich assumes a new form of inclusion. As the title of the collection indicates, Rich’s vision becomes universal as she moves through America’s spiritual, cultural, and physical domains. Though the scope of the poems is expansive, and in that way recalls the...
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