"The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart."--Jacket.

In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children (Not of course here) learn amid violence and hatred, "when the whole town flinches/blood on the undersole thickening to glass." Usonian Journals 2000 intercuts faces and conversations, building to a dystopic/utopic vision. Throughout...

A major new work by one of our most distinguished and compelling poets. In this new volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and across gender, dialogues between poets and visual artists, human damages and dignity, and the persistence of utopian visions. Here Rich continues taking the temperature of mind and body in her time in an intimate and yet commanding...

The award-winning poet and militant feminist investigates her own experience of motherhood and the institution itself, surveying pertinent concepts, myths, stereotypes, and symbols as they appear in history, literature, and art.

This book brings together in contemporary English verse translations poems by some seventy women who live or have lived in thirty-seven countries. They come from Eastern and Western Europe, from the Middle and Far East, from islands in the South Pacific, from South America, the Caribbean, French Canada, and from the hidden American literatures of the Yiddish and American Indian literary customs.