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The Dream of a Common Language

Poems 1974-1977
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The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich delves into the depths of a woman's heart and mind, using clear and accessible language that resonates with readers from all walks of life. The verses embrace plainness, laughter, questions, and nobility, creating poetry that evokes a shared human experience.
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"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody-language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this."-Boston Evening Globe

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The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions, and nobility everyone can respond to.

No one is writing better or more needed verse than this. Boston Evening Globe

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Boston Evening Globe praises the collection for its universal voice and significance, stating that no one is crafting better or more necessary poetry than that found in this work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393346008

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 132g

Pages: 96

About the Author

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major public intellectual of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, and more than a half-dozen of prose.

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