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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-276) and index.

Jacob and the angel (2003) -- Preface (1993) -- I Woman and bird -- II Voices from the air -- III "What would we create?" -- IV Dearest Arturo -- V "Those two shelves, down there" -- VI As if your life depended on it -- VII The space for poetry -- VIII How does a poet put bread on the table? -- IX The muralist -- X The hermit's scream -- XI A leak in history -- XII Someone is writing a poem -- XIII Beginners -- XIV The real, not the calendar, twenty-first century -- XV "A clearing in the imagination" -- XVI What is an American life? -- XVII "Moment of Proof" -- XVIII "History stops for no one" -- XIX The transgressor mother -- XX A communal poetry -- XXI The distance between language and violence -- XXII Not how to write poetry, but wherefore -- XXIII "Rotted names" -- XXIV A poet's education -- XXV To invent what we desire -- XXVI Format and form -- XXVII Tourism and promised lands -- XXVIII What if? -- XXIX Six meditations in place of a lecture.