Photographs, biographical sketches, and informal commentaries are combined with selected works by British and American poets

The Modern Poets: An American-British Anthology, 2nd Edition

Literature & Fiction

ROBERT GRAVES

Muriel Rukeyser

Seamus HEaney

E.E. Cummings

Conrad, Aiken

Thomas, Kinsella

dylan-thomas

Robert, Frost

Poetry

McGraw-Hill Book Company

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.

The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

McGraw=Hill

A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life. Bringing together works only sparsely anthologized or long out of print, this book is a resource for understanding the range, depth, and originality of this pioneering writer whom the poet Anne Sexton named "Muriel, mother of everyone." .

A Muriel Rukeyser Reader

History & Criticism

W.W.Norton&Company

The Speed of Darkness: [Poems]

Random House]

The Speed of Darkness

Vintage

The Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems

HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Publishing

Selected Poems

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Muriel Rukeyser's previously unpublished play presents the captivating life of Harry Houdini, one of our country's most intriguing celebrities. The play is magical, sexy, and provocative-presenting Houdini's life from his Brooklyn childhood and tricks (picking up pins with his eyelids) and his young romance with wife Bess, to his relationship with his mother; from picking the lock of a jail and releasing his circus companions to Houdini's Congressional Hearing and his famous escape acts. Part biography, part fantasy, Rukeyser explores issues that tap into desire, race, family, and politics. Houdini was performed once in Lenox, Massachusetts in the early 70's, with Christopher Walken playing the lead. This lost drama will appeal to theater people, Houdini fans, poets, magicians, and anyone interested in the interplay between reality and the imagination. How much of our lives do we conjure? Rooted in the early 70's, but timeless in its underlying theme, Houdini joins the Rukeyser resurgence that is well underway. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) is one of our country's most influential, yet neglected writers. She published fifteen collections of poetry, translations, childrens books, and several works of nonfiction. Her "toys of fame" include the Yale Younger Poets Award, the Copernicus Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Shelley Memorial Award. She served as president of P.E.N. American Center from 1975 to 1976.

Houdini: A Verse Drama to Be Spoken or Sung

Biographies & Memoirs

Paris Pr

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