Seven Skins (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: 1950’s, Memory, Libraries or librarians, Quest, Handicapped
Midnight Salvage explores a unique path of poetry for Rich. In it, she uses real people to tell her stories of war, memory, history, and the violence of power. These are all themes with which Rich's readers are familiar, but in this collection she requires her readers to question the social context, as well as what is accepted as truth.
“Seven Skins” portrays a young woman's quest for knowledge in 1952. It begins in the library, where Rich makes a symbolic reference to elevation. A graduate student, Vic Greenberg, who is a “paraplegic GI-Bill of Rights Jew” rolls...
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