The collection showcases Muriel Rukeyser's previously unpublished and uncollected prose, encompassing her journalism, essays, reviews, lectures, stories, and radio scripts. It emphasizes the interplay between her modernist experimental poetics and her commitment to antifascist, antiracist, and queer feminist radical politics, providing a comprehensive scholarly edition that enriches the understanding of her multifaceted contributions to literature and activism.
Muriel Rukeyser Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
Muriel Rukeyser war eine amerikanische Dichterin und politische Aktivistin, die sich in ihren Werken mit Themen wie Gleichheit, Feminismus, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und Judentum auseinandersetzte. Ihre Poesie ist bekannt für ihre Kraft und ihren dokumentarischen Ansatz, wie in ihrem Gedichtzyklus The Book of the Dead, der eine industrielle Katastrophe dokumentiert. Rukeyser erforschte auch die jüdische Identität, was zur überraschenden Aufnahme ihres Werkes in liturgische Texte führte.



The Essential Muriel Rukeyser
- 128 Seiten
- 5 Lesestunden
The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: "Muriel Rukeyser's poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States...She pushes us...to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics." The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser's most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.
Willard Gibbs
- 465 Seiten
- 17 Lesestunden
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