Muriel Rukeyser
Selected Poems
By Muriel Rukeyser; Adrienne Cecile Rich (Editor)
(Library of America, Hardcover, 9781931082587, 230pp.)
Publication Date: March 2004
Categories: American - General
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Description
Muriel Rukeyser (1913a80) published her first bookathe powerfully experimental "Theory of Flight"aat age twenty-two, and went on to an adventurous and prolific career as poet, translator, and political activist. Her expansive energies sought a poetry in which politics, geography, sexuality, mythology, and autobiography could find fused and fluid expression. From her early, brilliantly cinematic aPoem Out of Childhooda through excerpts from her long wartime aLetter to the Fronta to her late aResurrection of the Right Side, a written after her stroke, this selection represents the many sides and selves of a major poet.











