Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser - ISBN: 9781931082587
Hardcover
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, s…

Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems

(American Poets Project #9)

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  • Hardcover

    230 pages

  • Release Date

    30 March 2004

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Summary

The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser confronts the turbulent currents of 20th-century history, as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change, and family life. She was a social activist of unwavering commitment, a tireless experimenter who opened fresh forms and fresh subject matter in modern American poetry, and a writer who was constantly testing her own limits in a life’s work of extraordinary scope.“She refused to compartmentaliz…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781931082587
ISBN-10:1931082588
Author:Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher:The Library of America
Imprint:The Library of America
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:230
Release Date:30 March 2004
Weight:240g
Dimensions:196mm x 119mm x 15mm
Series:American Poets Project
About The Author

Muriel Rukeyser

Adrienne Rich(1929-2012) published nearly twenty volumes of poetry includeFox- Poems 1998-2000;Midnight Salvage- Poems 1995-1998; andDark Fields of the Republic- Poems 1991-1995. She has received the Bollingen Prize, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and the National Book Award, among other honors.

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