The essential Muriel Rukeyser Poems

Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980

Book - 2021

"Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser's most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many ...decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets."--

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Subjects
Genres
Poetry
Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980 (author)
Other Authors
Natasha D. Trethewey, 1966- (editor)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xiii, 204 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN
9780062985491
  • Introduction
  • From Theory of Fight
  • Notes for a Poem
  • Effort at Speech Between Two People
  • Sonnet
  • This House, This Country
  • Sand-Quarry with Moving Figures
  • For Memory
  • City of Monuments
  • Metaphor to Action
  • The Blood Is Justified
  • From U.S. 1
  • The Road
  • West Virginia
  • Statement: Philippa Allen
  • Gauley Bridge
  • The Face of the Dam: Vivian Jones
  • Praise of the Committee
  • Mearl Blankenship
  • Absalom
  • The Disease
  • George Robinson: Blues
  • Juanita Tinsley
  • The Doctors
  • The Cornfield
  • Arthur Peyton
  • Alloy
  • The Disease: After-Effects
  • The Bill
  • The Book of the Dead
  • From a Turning Wind
  • Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds
  • From Beast in View
  • Song
  • Love and Its Doors and Windows
  • Bubble of Air
  • Letter to the Front
  • The Soul and Body of John Brown
  • From the Green Wave
  • This Place in the Ways
  • Then I Saw What the Calling Was
  • Private Life of the Sphinx
  • From Elegies
  • Fourth Elegy. The Refugees
  • Eighth Elegy. Children's Elegy
  • From Body of Waking
  • Haying Before Storm
  • King's Mountain
  • F. O. M.
  • Pouring Milk Away
  • [Untitled]
  • [Untitled]
  • [Untitled]
  • From Water Lily Fire
  • To Enter That Rhythm Where the Self Is Lost
  • From the Speed of Darkness
  • The Poem as Mask
  • In Our Time
  • The Overthrow of One O'clock at Night
  • Song : Love in Whose Rich Honor
  • Niobe Now
  • Anemone
  • For My Son
  • Poem
  • What They Said
  • The Backside of the Academy
  • The Flying Red Horse
  • Käthe Kollwitz
  • The Speed of Darkness
  • From Breaking Open
  • Waking This Morning
  • Waiting for Icarus
  • Despisals
  • Myth
  • Ballad of Orange and Grape
  • Don Baty, the Draft Resister
  • Secrets of American Civilization
  • Wherever
  • Flying to Hanoi
  • From the Gates
  • How We Did It
  • Islands
  • Resurrection of the Right Side
  • Poem White Page White Page Poem
  • Before Danger
  • Recovering
  • The Gates