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Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968
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Leaflets is Adrienne Rich's fifth book of poems. It contains twenty-eight new poems, five adaptations of Dutch, Yiddish, and Russian poets, and a sequence of seventeen poems loosely based on the ghazal, a common form in Middle Eastern poetic tradition; these ghazals comprise a kind of notebook of a month in the summer of 1968.
The themes of this book are the poetics of violence and the poetics of love. Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through languag…