Time's Power

<p>For thirty years Rich's poetry has revealed the individual personal life—sexualities loves damages struggles—as inseparable from a wider social condition a world with others in which the empowering of the disempowered is increasingly the source of human hope. Now her mature vision engages with the power of time itself: memory and its contradictions the ebb and flow between parents and children the deaths we all face sooner or later the meaning of human responsibility in all this. "Letters in the Family" for example is written in the voices of three women—from the Spanish Civil War from a Jewish rescue mission behind Nazi lines and from present-day Southern Africa.<em>Time's Power</em> shows Rich writing with unprecedented range complexity and authority.</p>