{"product_id":"9780393348088","title":"Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeaflets\u003c\/em\u003e is Adrienne Rich's fifth book of poems. It contains twenty-eight new poems, five adaptations of Dutch, Yiddish, and Russian poets, and a sequence of seventeen poems loosely based on the \u003cem\u003eghazal\u003c\/em\u003e, a common form in Middle Eastern poetic tradition; these \u003cem\u003eghazals\u003c\/em\u003e comprise a kind of notebook of a month in the summer of 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Miss Rich has written: \"For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it—that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover—literally—this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action.\"","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104339673328,"sku":"9780393348088","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393348088_p0.jpg?v=1763697438","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393348088","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}