I. Waiting for rain, for music
Reading the Iliad (as if) for the first time
Benjamin revisited
Innocence
Domain
Fracture
Turbulence
Tonight no poetry will serve
II. Scenes of negotiation
III. From sickbed shores
IV. Axel Avákar
Axel: backstory
Axel, in thunder
I was there, Axel
Axel, darkly seen, in a glass house
V. Ballade of the poverties
Emergency clinic
Confrontations
Circum/Stances
Winterface
Quarto
Don't flinch
Black locket
Generosity
VI. You again
Powers of recuperation.
Tonight no poetry will serve : poems, 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich. ISBN 9780393079678. Published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.