{"product_id":"9780393070774","title":"The School among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right.\"--\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e 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 these fierce and musical poems, Rich traces the imprint of a public crisis on individual experience: personal lives bent by collective realities, language itself held to account.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121382605040,"sku":"9780393070774","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393070774_p0.jpg?v=1763696487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393070774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}