Midnight Salvage Poems 1995-1998 [Paperback]

Look: with all my fear I'm here with you, trying what it means, to stand fast; what it means to move. In these astonishing new poems, Adrienne Rich dares to look and to extend her poetic language as witness to the treasuresthe midnight salvagewe rescue from fear and fragmentation. Rich's work has long challenged social plausibilities built on violence and demoralizing power. In An impressive new volume. . . . Rich's admirers will recognize the complex symbiosis between the activist and the maker of new language, each propelling, describing, provoking the other's words.