The Dream of a Common Language
Poems 1974-1977
17 May 2013
Description
“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild
“The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe
Awards
Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1978
Also By: Adrienne Rich 
Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968
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