What is found there : notebooks on poetry and politics / Adrienne Rich.

"First published as a Norton paperback 1994"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (notes p. [251]-270, bibliography p. [271]-276) and index.

Woman and bird -- voices from the air -- "What would we create?" -- Dearest Arturo -- "Those two shelves, down there" -- As if your life depended on it -- The space for poetry -- How does a poet put bread on the table? -- The muralist -- The hermit's scream -- A leak in history -- Someone is writing a poem -- Beginners -- The real, not the calendar, twenty-first century -- "A clearing in the imagination" -- What is an American life? -- "Moment of proof" -- "History stops for no one" -- The transgressor mother -- A communal poetry -- The distance between language and violence -- Not how to write poetry, but wherefore -- "Rotted names" -- A poet's education -- To invent what we desire -- Format and form -- Tourism and promised lands -- What if?