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Diving Into the Wreck

Adrienne Rich

Paperback | Pages: 72 pages

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Original Title:	Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
ISBN:	0393311635 (ISBN13: 9780393311631)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Poetry (1974)

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With language as clinically apocalyptic and claustrophobically dystopic as anything to be found in the postmodern nightmares of Ballard and DeLillo, Diving Into the Wreck rages against the heteronormative status quo as Rich points her poetic finger at men and women, both of whom bear the burden of guilt. These poems range across shifting tropes such as ecological destruction, commodification, Vietnam, dreams and violence to showcase Rich's belief that the domestic scene is as much a prison as the Hanoi Hotel, except the torture here is being administered specifically on the psyches of women by all the socially acclimated cyborgs, with their gender roles callously installed at an early age and their mass-produced parts clicking and whirling, every one of them leading lives as sinister as a hive mind horde and as banal as a commercial seen for the thousandth time. The titular poem is Rich at her best, weaving an astounding metaphor for the mystery of meaning and identity that rises above simply condemning either gender. Meant to make men squirm and women take a long sober and look at themselves, the short-fused poems found in this collection are an angry swarm of bees written by a very angry poet. A much needed kick to the teeth for every reader.

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Title	:	Diving Into the Wreck
Author	:	Adrienne Rich
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 72 pages
Published	:	August 17th 1994 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Poetry. Feminism. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Womens

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I've read some of Adrienne Rich's poetry before, but not all. I came across this by chance in the library today, and decided to bring it home -- I knew Diving into the Wreck itself, but not all of the other poems. They're powerful, painful, beautiful. There are only a couple that didn't really speak to me.

RapeThere is a cop who is both prowler and father:he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers,had certain ideals.You hardly know him in his boots and silver badge,on horseback, one hand touching his gun.You hardly know him but you have to get to know him:he has access to machinery that could kill you.He and his stallion clop like warlords among the trash,his ideals stand in the air, a frozen cloudfrom between his unsmiling lips.And so, when the time comes, you have to turn to him,the

these scars bear witnessbut whether to repairor to destructionI no longer knowI have a shameful confession to make. This was the first poetry book to have read to completion. I have read some poems, but this was the first time I managed to finish a collection. The reason being that I was afraid of poetry, afraid that I was not smart or capable enough to understand content and meaning. It always felt like there was a layer beneath what I had read and as much as I kept scratching, digging and



Amazing poetry.(Found this copy of the original paperback at Value Village for 99 cents. Score!)

When I was a young thing, I would save my pennies to buy everything Adrienne published. This is the pivotal book of poetry, the turning point from the earlier (and beautiful) formal poems into the rough territory of heart and world through which the later books move. Stellar.

애드리언 리치의 시는 폭발적이다. 뭔가 속에서 꿈틀대는 것이 폭발하는 느낌은 디킨슨이랑도 비슷하다. 지배적인 anger의 감정과 호전적 페미니스트의 기운. 개인적으로 마음에 들었던 시: TranslationsYou show me the poems of some womanmy age, or youngertranslated from your languageCertain words occur: enemy, oven, sorrowenough to let me know shes a woman of my timeobsessedwith Love, our subject:weve trained it like ivy to our wallsbaked it like bread in our ovensworn it like lead on our ankleswatched it through binoculars as if it were a helicopterbringing food to our famineor