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Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
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9780822959243
Overview
Overview
Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro Nine, the Spanish Civil War, the poisoning of the Gauley Bridge laborers-split the darkness covering a shameful world.
In addition to the complete texts of her twelve previously published books, this volume also features new poems discovered by the editors; Rukeyser's translations, including the first English translations of Octavio Paz's work; early work by Rukeyser not previously published in book form; and the controversial book-length poem Wake Island. An introduction by the editors traces Rukeyser's life and literary reputation and complements discerning annotations and textual notes to the poems.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Kaufman, Janet
- ISBN: 9780822959243
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.22 x 1.71
- Number Of Pages: 712
- Publication Year: 2006