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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
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"Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I'd chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion" —Cheryl Strayed, Wild


"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this."—Boston Evening Globe
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Adrienne Rich. (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977. W. W. Norton & Company.

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