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Muriel Rukeyser
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Born
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1913-12-15
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December 15, 1913
New York City
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Died
| February 12, 1980
(1980-02-12)
(aged 66)
New York City
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Occupation
| poet, essayist, biographer
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Citizenship
| American
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Education
| Vassar College, Columbia University
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Genre
| Poetry
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Subject
| equality, feminism, social justice
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Years active
| 1932-1980
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Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive
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Muriel Rukeyser
(December 15, 1913 ? February 12, 1980) was an American
poet
,
essayist
,
biographer
, and
political activist
.
[1]
She was born in
New York City
and went to
Vassar College
. As a student
reporter
there, Rukeyser covered the 1932
Scottsboro trial
in
Alabama
when nine black youths were accused of raping two white girls. Later she reported from
Barcelona
on the Loyalists during the
Spanish Civil War
. She
protested
against the
Vietnam War
. She was president of the American Center for
PEN
in the 1970s.
[1]
Her first book of poems,
Theory of Flight
won the
Yale Series of Younger Poets
competition in 1935.
[2]
Poet
Adrienne Rich
said that Rukeyser wanted readers "to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.”
[2]
- Theory of Flight
. (1935)
- Mediterranean.
(1938)
- U.S. 1: Poems
. (1938)
- A Turning Wind: Poems
. (1939)
- The Soul and Body of John Brown.
(1940)
- Wake Island
. (1942)
- Willard Gibbs: American Genius
. (1942)
- Beast in View
. (1944)
- The Green Wave: Poems
. (1948)
- The Life of Poetry
. (1949)
- Orpheus.
(1949)
- Elegies
. (1949)
- Selected Poems
. (1951)
- One Life
. (1957)
- Body of Waking: Poems
. (1958)
- Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962
. (1962)
- The Outer Banks
. (1967, 1980)
- The Speed of Darkness: Poems
.(1968)
- 29 Poems
. (1972)
- Breaking Open: New Poems
.(1973)
- The Gates: Poems
. (1976)
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