Adrienne Rich’s most recent books of poetry are Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth and The School Among the Ruins. She edited Muriel Rukeyser’s Selected Poems for the Library of America. A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, appeared in 2009. “Confrontations” will be included in Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, forthcoming in 2011 from W.W. Norton.
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A child’s hand smears a wall the reproof is bitter
wall contrives to linger child, punisher, gone in smoke
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