Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-91

In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.

Review: "In An Atlas of the Difficult World Rich says: 'We write from the marrow of our bones.' So she has written since the 1960s, saying what we longed to say, but could not, or dared not. She is a crucial poet: each volume more courageous, newly elegant. In this book she makes me, even in these harsh times, brave, toughened by her boldness, her skill." -- Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Prizes: Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize 1992. Short-listed for National Book Award 1991 and Pulitzer Prize 1992 and National Book Critics Circle Award 1991.