Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser (edited by Janet Kaufman & Anne F. Herzog)

ISBN 10: 082294247X / ISBN 13: 9780822942474

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2005

About this Item

First printing. 8vo. [xlii], 670 pp. Purple cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Edited by Janet Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog with Jan Heller Levi. Review copy with publisher's letter and review slip laid in.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082294247X
• ISBN 13: 9780822942474
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Janet E. Kaufman is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah.

Anne F. Herzog is Dean of theSchool of Arts, Science, and Professional Studies at Springfield College. They are coeditors of "How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?": The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser.

Jan Heller Levi, is the author of a collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, and editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. She is working on a biography of Muriel Rukeyser.