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The Essential Muriel Rukeyser

Poems

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey 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. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.” 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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0062985507

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A Muriel Rukeyser Reader

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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A Muriel Rukeyser Reader

By: Muriel Rukeyser

In many ways, " writes Adrienne Rich in her Introduction, "Muriel Rukeyser was beyond her time - and seems, at the edge of the twenty-first century, to have grasped resources we are only now beginning to reach for: the connections between history and the body, memory and politics, sexuality and public space, poetry and physical science, and much else. She spoke as a poet, first and foremost; but she spoke also as a thinking activist, biographer, traveler, explorer of her country's psychic geography." A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life. Bringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named "Muriel, mother of everyone.

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294

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W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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0393313239

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9780393313239

The Muriel Rukeyser Era

Selected Prose

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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The Muriel Rukeyser Era

Selected Prose

By: Muriel Rukeyser

The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women's intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement. Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a deeply committed thinker, her accessible but philosophically complex prose—including essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviews—addresses issues related to racial, gender, and class justice, war and war crimes; the prison-industrial complex, Jewish culture and diaspora, motherhood, literature, music, cinema, and translation. Many of the selected texts have been forgotten, have fallen out of print, or were never previously published because of conservative Cold War political and gender orthodoxies. The Muriel Rukeyser Era offers new insight into Rukeyser's radical and strikingly contemporary vision for the role of the writer—especially the woman writer. This selection reveals the centrality of feminism, antifascism, and antiracism to her thinking and thus affirms the resonance and urgency of her work today.

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305

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Cornell University Press

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1501771779

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9781501771774

The Muriel Rukeyser Era

Selected Prose

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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Selected Prose

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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The Essential Muriel Rukeyser

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By: Muriel Rukeyser

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Out of Silence

Selected Poems

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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Out of Silence

Selected Poems

By: Muriel Rukeyser

Out of Silence is a poetry book encompassing the contradictions of twentieth-century America.

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196

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Northwestern University Press

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0810150158

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9780810150157

Savage Coast

A Novel

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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Savage Coast

A Novel

By: Muriel Rukeyser

The poet’s newly discovered novel of reporting on the Spanish Civil War “is both an absorbing read and an important contribution to 20th-century history” (Publishers Weekly). As a young reporter in 1936, the pioneering poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Barcelona to witness the first days of the Spanish Civil War. She turned this experience into an autobiographical novel so forward thinking—both in its lyrical prose and its frank depictions of violence and sexuality—that it was never published in her lifetime. Recently discovered in her archive, Feminist Press finally makes this important work available to the public. Savage Coast charts a young American woman’s political and sexual awakening as she witnesses the popular front resistance to the fascist coup and falls in love with a German political exile who joins the first international brigade. Rukeyser’s narrative is a modernist exploration of violence, activism, and desire; a documentary text detailing the start of the war; and a testimony to those who fought and died for freedom and justice during the first major battle against European fascism.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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155861821X

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9781558618213

Out of Silence

Selected Poems

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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Selected Poems

By: Muriel Rukeyser

Out of Silence is a poetry book encompassing the contradictions of twentieth-century America.

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Savage Coast

By: Muriel Rukeyser

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Savage Coast

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Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

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347

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558618201

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9781558618206

Changing the Rules

Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick

By: Muriel Siebert,Aimee Lee Ball

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Changing the Rules

Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick

By: Muriel Siebert,Aimee Lee Ball

The first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange reveals how she forged her phenomenal success in the chaotic and cutthroat world of Wall Street.

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248

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Simon and Schuster

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0743211146

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9780743211147

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