Fox (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Cancer, Pain, Veterans, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Animals, Persian Gulf War, Mammals, Underworld or Hades, Foxes
Adrienne Rich’s Fox: Poems 1998-2000 is a slender volume containing, in addition to the title poem, longish framing poems at the beginning and at the end. In this, her seventeenth volume of verse, she continues her treatment of her major themes: the discourse between poetry and history, exchanges between genders, dialogues between poets and visual artists, and the persistence of utopian visions.
The opening verse paragraph of “Victory” concerns the hidden spread of cancer, later presented ironically as “a beautiful tumor.” The speaker implies that the...
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