Fact Of A Doorframe Pa (Revised)

by Rich,Adrienne

• ISBN13: 9780393323955
• ISBN10: 0393323951
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).

Author Biography

Adrienne Rich has published over sixteen books of poetry and is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, among many other honors. She lives in California

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
From A Change of World (1951)
Storm Warnings	3	(1)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	4	(1)
Boundary	4	(1)
At a Bach Concert	5	(4)
From The Diamond Cutters (1955)
Ideal Landscape	9	(1)
Living in Sin	9	(1)
The Snow Queen	10	(1)
Letter from the Land of Sinners	11	(4)
From Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)
From Morning-Glory to Petersburg	15	(1)
The Knight	16	(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	17	(4)
Antinous: The Diaries	21	(1)
Peeling Onions	22	(1)
The Roofwalker	23	(1)
Prospective Immigrants Please Note	24	(5)
From Necessities of Life (1966)
Necessities of Life	29	(2)
In the Woods	31	(2)
The Trees	33	(1)
Like This Together	34	(2)
Night-Pieces: For a Child	36	(2)
``I Am in Danger---Sir---''	38	(1)
Mourning Picture	39	(1)
The Knot	40	(1)
Focus	41	(4)
From Leaflets (1969)
Orion	45	(1)
In the Evening	46	(1)
The Demon Lover	47	(3)
Jerusalem	50	(2)
Night Watch	52	(1)
For a Russian Poet	53	(2)
Abnegation	55	(1)
Implosions	56	(1)
On Edges	57	(1)
Leaflets	58	(5)
from Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib	63	(8)
7/12/68 The clouds are electric in this university.	63	(1)
7/14/68: i In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice.	63	(1)
7/14/68: ii Did you think I was talking about my life?	64	(1)
7/16/68: i Blacked-out on a wagon, part of my life cut out forever---	64	(1)
7/16/68: ii When they mow the fields, I see the world reformed	65	(1)
7/26/68: i Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry.	65	(1)
8/1/68 The order of the small town on the riverbank	66	(1)
8/4/68 If these are letters, they will have to be misread.	66	(1)
8/8/68: i From here on, all of us will be living	67	(1)
8/8/68: ii A piece of thread ripped-out from a fierce design	67	(4)
From The Will to Change (1971)
November 1968	71	(1)
Study of History	72	(1)
Planetarium	73	(2)
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children	75	(3)
I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus	78	(1)
Letters: March 1969	79	(4)
The Stelae	83	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	84	(1)
from Shooting Script	85	(8)
From Diving into the Wreck (1973)
Trying to Talk with a Man	93	(1)
When We Dead Awaken	94	(2)
From the Prison House	96	(1)
The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One	97	(3)
Dialogue	100	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	101	(3)
Song	104	(1)
The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message	105	(1)
Rape	105	(2)
Burning Oneself In	107	(1)
From a Survivor	108	(1)
August	109	(4)
Uncollected Poems (1950--1974)
The Prisoners	113	(1)
At the Jewish New Year	113	(2)
Dien Bien Phu	115	(1)
Re-forming the Crystal	116	(2)
White Night	118	(1)
From an Old House in America	119	(12)
The Fact of a Doorframe	131	(4)
From The Dream of a Common Language (1978)
Power	135	(1)
Hunger	136	(2)
Cartographies of Silence	138	(5)
Twenty-One Love Poems	143	(11)
A Woman Dead in Her Forties	154	(6)
Natural Resources	160	(11)
From A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981)
Integrity	171	(2)
For Memory	173	(1)
For Ethel Rosenberg	174	(5)
Grandmothers	179	(2)
The Spirit of Place	181	(6)
Frame	187	(6)
From Your Native Land, Your Life (1986)
For the Record	193	(1)
Virginia 1906	194	(2)
For an Occupant	196	(1)
North American Time	197	(4)
Blue Rock	201	(2)
from Contradictions: Tracking Poems	203	(1)
Look: this is January	203	(1)
Heart of cold.	204	(1)
My mouth hovers	204	(1)
Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight	205	(1)
Dear Adrienne, I feel signified by pain	205	(1)
Night over the great and the little worlds	206	(1)
I came out of the hospital	206	(1)
Violence as purification	207	(1)
Lately in my dreams	207	(1)
You who think I find words for everything	208	(1)
The problem, unstated till now	208	(1)
The tobacco fields lie fallow	209	(1)
In a bald skull sits our friend	209	(1)
You know the Government must have pushed them	210	(1)
You: air-driven reft	210	(1)
The Tolstoyans	211	(1)
You who think I find words for everything	211	(4)
From Time's Power (1989)
In a Classroom	215	(1)
The Novel	215	(1)
Children Playing Checkers at the Edge of the Forest	216	(1)
The Desert as Garden of Paradise	217	(7)
Delta	224	(1)
Dreamwood	224	(1)
Harpers Ferry	225	(8)
From An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991)
from An Atlas of the Difficult World	233	(14)
A dark woman, head bent	233	(2)
Here is a map of our country	235	(1)
Late summers, early autumns	236	(1)
Catch if you can your country's moment	237	(2)
(The dream-site)	239	(1)
He thought there would be a limit	239	(2)
On this earth, in this life	241	(1)
Soledad. = f. Solitude, loneliness	242	(1)
One night on Monterey Bay	243	(2)
(Dedications)	245	(2)
That Mouth	247	(1)
Marghanita	247	(2)
Tattered Kaddish	249	(1)
Final Notations	250	(3)
From Dark Fields of the Republic (1995)
What Kind of Times Are These	253	(1)
In Those Years	253	(1)
Calle Vision	254	(7)
Then or Now	261	(3)
Food Packages: 1947	261	(1)
Innocence: 1945	261	(1)
Sunset, December, 1993	262	(1)
Deportations	263	(1)
And Now	264	(1)
Late Ghazal	264	(1)
from Inscriptions	265	(10)
One: comrade	265	(1)
Two: movement	266	(1)
Four: history	267	(1)
Six: edgelit	268	(7)
From Midnight Salvage (1999)
For an Anniversary	275	(1)
Midnight Salvage	275	(5)
Char	280	(2)
Letters to a Young Poet	282	(4)
Camino Real	286	(2)
Seven Skins	288	(4)
Rusted Legacy	292	(5)
From Fox (2001)
Veterans Day	297	(5)
Architect	302	(1)
Fox	303	(1)
Fire	304	(1)
Noctilucent Clouds	305	(1)
If Your Name Is on the List	306	(1)
1999	307	(1)
Four Short Poems	308	(2)
(driving home from Robin Blaser's reading)	308	(1)
We're not yet out of the everglades	308	(1)
Beethoven's ``Appassionata'' played	309	(1)
From the new crudities, from the old	309	(1)
Ends of the Earth	310	(1)
Notes	311	(8)
Index	319