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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

Diving Into the Wreck

Adrienne Rich

Paperback | Pages: 72 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 7582 Users | 234 Reviews

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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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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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I feel a tremendous debt to Adrienne Rich. She was a smart woman with a strong voice at a time when such a thing was considered iconoclastic. This collection of poems cuts right to the core.

A punch in the gut. Political, cynical, urgent.

Stunning, dark collection, full of images of water rushing, flames overwhelming, sexuality arriving and disappearing. Everything around her is either combustible or on the verge of death, wilting or igniting under the horror of it all. "...to feel the fiery future of every matchstick in the kitchen" or"while we sit up smoking and talking of how to live, he turns on the bed and murmurs"or"...the fire you want to go to bed from but cannot leave, burning down but not burnt down."The word "burning"

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.

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



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