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Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #9)

Hardback

Main Details

Title Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #9)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Muriel Rukeyser
SeriesAmerican Poets Project
Series part Volume No. 9
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:230
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 119
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781931082587
ClassificationsDewey:811.52
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher The Library of America
Imprint The Library of America
Publication Date 30 March 2004
Publication Country United States

Description

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 compartmentalize herself or her work," writes editor Adrienne Rich, "claiming her right to intellect and sexuality, poetry and science, Marxism and myth, activism and motherhood, theory and vision. . . . She was one of the great integrators, seeing the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and emotional repair." This new selection provides an indispensable introduction to her adventurous and prolific work. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.

Author Biography

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.