The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
Published on 22. May 2005
713 pages
978-0-8229-8018-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
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Janet E. Kaufman is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Editors' Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Theory of Flight (1935)
- 1. Poem Out of Childhood
- Poem Out of Childhood
- Song for Dead Children
- In a Dark House
- Effort at Speech between Two People
- Notes for a Poem
- Place-Rituals
- Wooden Spring
- Sonnet
- Letter, Unposted
- Sand-Quarry with Moving Figures
- Wedding Presents
- Three Sides of a Coin
- Breathing Landscape
- Four in a Family
- This House,This Country
- 2. Theory of Flight
- Preamble
- The Gyroscope
- The Lynchings of Jesus
- The Tunnel
- The Structure of the Plane
- Night Flight : New York
- Theory of Flight
- 3. The Blood Is Justified For Memory
- For Memory
- City of Monuments
- Study in a Late Subway
- Child and Mother
- Eccentric Motion
- Sundays, They Sleep Late
- Thousands of Days
- The Surrounded
- Burlesque
- Movie
- Metaphor to Action
- Citation for Horace Gregory
- Cats and a Cock
- The Blood Is Justified
- U.S. 1 (1938)
- 1. The Book of the Dead
- The Road
- West Virginia
- Statement: Phillippa Allen
- Gauley Bridge
- The Face of the Dam: Vivian Jones
- Praise of the Committee
- Mearl Blankenship
- Absalom
- The Disease
- George Robinson: Blues
- Juanita Tinsley
- The Doctors
- The Cornfield
- Arthur Peyton
- Alloy
- Power
- The Dam
- The Disease: After-Effects
- The Bill
- The Book of the Dead
- 2. Night-Music
- A Flashing Cliff
- Girl at the Play
- Burning Bush
- Eel
- Homage to Literature
- The Handclap
- Trophies
- Panacea
- In Hades, Orpheus
- The Drowning Young Man
- Boy with His Hair Cut Short
- Course
- More of a Corpse than a Woman
- Three Black Women
- Formosa
- Night-Music
- Driveway
- Lover as Fox
- Gift-Poem
- Woman and Emblems
- Outpost
- 3. Two Voyages
- The Cruise
- Mediterranean
- A Turning Wind (1939)
- 1. Moment of Proof
- Reading Time : 1 Minute 26 Seconds
- Song, the Brain-Coral
- Target Practice
- Otherworld
- Nuns in the Wind
- For Fun
- Correspondences
- Noguchi
- Seventh Avenue
- The Shortest Way Home
- Palos Verdes Cliffs
- Paper Anniversary
- From the Duck-Pond to the Carousel
- Asylum Song
- The Victims, a Play for the Home
- M-Day's Child
- Speech for the Assistant, from Houdini
- Judith
- 2. Lives
- Untitled
- Gibbs
- Ryder
- Chapman
- Ann Burlak
- Ives
- Wake Island (1942)
- Beast in View (1944)
- One Soldier
- 1. Beast in View
- Ajanta
- Mortal Girl
- Child in the Great Wood
- 2
- Letter to the Front
- 3
- The Soul and Body of John Brown
- The Green Wave (1948)
- "Let poems and bodies love and be given to air"
- Water Night
- Eyes of Night-Time
- This Place in the Ways
- Song, from "Mr. Amazeen on the River"
- Cloud, Airs, Carried Me Away
- Salamander
- His Head Is Full of Faces
- Mrs. Walpurga
- A Certain Music
- The Motive of All of It
- Green Limits
- The Children's Orchard
- Christmas Eve
- Crayon House
- A Charm for Cantinflas
- Traditional Tune
- Foghorn in Horror
- Summer, the Sacramento
- Speech of the Mother, from The Middle of the Air
- Then I Saw What the Calling Was
- Translations: Six Poems by Octavio Paz
- The Bird
- Poet's Epitaph
- Spark
- Two Bodies
- The Street
- Lovers
- Rari from the Marquesas
- Rari for Tahia and Piu
- Rari for O'Otua
- A True Confession
- Careful of the Day
- Rari for Hepuheku
- Rari
- Rari to Encourage Youth
- Rari, to Be Bothered by Mosquitoes
- Not Before I Fall Asleep
- Easter Eve 1945
- Easter Eve 1945
- Private Life of the Sphinx
- Nine Poems for the unborn child
- Orpheus (1949)
- Elegies (1949)
- First Elegy. Rotten Lake
- Second Elegy. Age of Magicians
- Third Elegy. The Fear of Form
- Fourth Elegy. The Refugees
- Fifth Elegy. A Turning Wind
- Sixth Elegy. River Elegy
- Seventh Elegy. Dream-Singing Elegy
- Eighth Elegy. Children's Elegy
- Ninth Elegy. The Antagonists
- Tenth Elegy. Elegy in Joy
- Body of Waking (1958)
- 1
- Haying Before Storm
- Phaneron
- The Young Girl of the Mississippi Valley
- A Birth
- King's Mountain
- Mother Garden's Round
- Rite
- Ringling
- After Their Quarrel
- Tree
- Night Feeding
- The Return
- Unborn Song
- The Two Illuminations
- F.O.M.
- Exile of Music
- On the Death of Her Mother
- Untitled
- Hero Speech
- The Watchers
- A Ballad Theme
- Of Money.And the Past
- Untitled
- The Loan
- Pouring Milk Away
- Children, the Sandbar, that Summer
- Born in December
- The Sixth Night: Waking
- Nevertheless the Moon
- Speed, We Say
- The Birth of Venus
- The Place at Alert Bay
- Voices of Waking
- Divining Water
- 2. Translations: Octavio Paz
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Fable
- Day
- Proverbs
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Life of the Poet
- The Prisoner
- from Sun Stone
- 3
- Suite for Lord Timothy Dexter
- 4
- Are You Born?-I
- Powerplant
- Fields Where We Slept
- Portrait of a Man, with a Background of Holdings
- Body of Waking
- Willkie in The Gulliver
- He Had a Quality of Growth
- Are You Born?-2
- Waterlily Fire (1962)
- The Speaking Tree
- To Enter That Rhythm Where the Self Is Lost
- For a Mexican Painter
- A Song of Another Tribe
- Song
- Waterlily Fire
- The Speed of Darkness (1968)
- 1. Clues
- The Poem as Mask
- What Do I Give You?
- The Transgress
- The Conjugation of the Paramecium
- Junk-Heap at Murano
- Clues
- In Our Time
- Double Dialogue:
- The Six Canons
- Forerunners
- Orgy
- The Overthrow of One O'Clock at Night
- Among Roses
- What I See
- Believing in Those Inexorable Laws
- Song : Love in Whose Rich Honor
- Niobe Now
- Song : The Star in the Nets of Heaven
- Air
- Gift
- Cries from Chiapas
- The War Comes into My Room
- Delta Poems
- Spirals and Fugues
- Anemone
- Fighting for Roses
- For My Son
- Poem
- The Power of Suicide
- The Seeming
- Song from Puck Fair
- Not Yet
- Landscape with Wave Approaching
- Segre Song
- Bunk Johnson Blowing
- Cannibal Bratuscha
- What Have You Brought Home from the Wars?
- One Month
- Silence of Volcanoes
- What They Said
- A Little Stone in the Middle of the Road, in Florida
- The Blue Flower
- Woman as Market
- Word of Mouth
- Endless
- 2. Games
- The Backside of the Academy
- Mountain : One from Bryant
- The Flying Red Horse
- 3
- The Outer Banks
- 4. Lives
- Akiba
- Käthe Kollwitz
- 5
- The Speed of Darkness
- Breaking Open (1973)
- 1. Searching / Not Searching
- Waking This Morning
- Despisals
- What Do We See?
- Looking at Each Other
- Desdichada
- Voices
- Fire
- Waiting for Icarus
- from City of Paradise
- The Question
- In Her Burning
- Rondel
- More Clues
- Myth
- Searching / Not Searching
- A Simple Experiment
- Along History
- Boys of These Men Full Speed
- All the Little Animals
- Next
- Two Years
- Iris
- 2. Orange and Grape
- Ballad of Orange and Grape
- Rock Flow, River Mix
- Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
- Looking
- Don Baty, the Draft Resister
- Te Hanh : Long-Ago Garden
- Welcome from War
- Facing Sentencing
- Secrets of American Civilization
- Wherever
- Bringing
- A Louis Sonnet
- After Melville
- The Writer
- Gradus Ad Parnassum
- From a Play : Publisher's Song
- In the Night the Sound Woke Us
- In the Underworld
- Afterwards
- Flying to Hanoi
- It Is There
- The Running of the Grunion
- Sacred Lake
- 3. Northern Poems
- Songs of the Barren Grounds
- I Recognize This Song
- The Black Ones, the Great Ones
- Trout Fishing
- How Lovely It Is
- The Word-Fisher
- Stroking Songs
- Stroking Songs, Childhood Songs
- 4
- Breaking Open
- The Gates (1976)
- 1
- St. Roach
- Dream-Drumming
- Double Ode
- Painters
- Rune
- How We Did It
- Islands
- Blue Spruce
- Artifact
- Ms. Lot
- Boys in the Branches
- Song : Lying in Daylight
- Hypnogogic Figure
- The Lost Romans
- Canal
- For Kay Boyle
- Resurrection of the Right Side
- The Wards
- The Sun-Artist
- Poem White Page White Page Poem
- Fable
- Neruda, the Wine
- Before Danger
- Song : Remembering Movies
- Work, for the Day Is Coming
- Recovering
- Parallel Invention
- Poem
- Not to Be Printed, Not to Be Said, Not to Be Thought
- Back Tooth
- Destruction of Grief
- Trinity Churchyard
- Burnishing, Oakland
- The Iris-Eaters
- Slow Death of the Dragon
- Mendings
- Then
- 2
- The Gates
- Juvenilia
- Antigone
- Cities of the Morning
- Autumn in the Garden
- The Ballad of the Missing Lines
- November Sketches
- To a Lady Turning Middle-Aged
- Place-Poems: New York
- Untitled
- For an Aesthete
- Pastorale No.2
- A New Poem
- An Unborn Poet
- Abbreviations
- Annotations
- Textual Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
