Catch If You Can Your Country's Moment
Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich, one of America's most significant writers and a poet and a public intellectual has aimed always at "the relief of the body / and the reconstruction of the mind". This collection Features eight essays that explore her work, and describe her effort to extend the reach of that healing motive across a continent and a culture.

Rich has aimed always, as the last lines of her poem "Planetarium" (1968) have it, at "the relief of the body / and the reconstruction of the mind," and this collection works to describe her effort to extend the reach of that healing motive across a continent and a culture.