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Poem Hunter .com Poet: Muriel Rukeyser - All poems of Muriel Rukeys 1/27/2008 12:07:15 PM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Muriel Rukeyser Poems Quotations Comments More Info ... Stats Poems Search in the poems of Muriel Rukeyser Click the title of the poem you'd like read. St. Roach The Conjugation of the Paramecium Quotations "To be against war is not enough, it is hardly a beginning. And all things strive; we who try to speak know the ideas trying to be more human, we know things near their birth that try to become real. The truth here goes farther, there is another way of being against war and for poetry. We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry." Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), U.S. poet. The Life of Poetry, ch. 13 (1949). "Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems." Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), U.S. poet. The Life of Poetry, ch. 5 (1949). Comments about Muriel Rukeyser There is no comment submitted by members.. Click here to write your comments about Muriel Rukeyser Web pages / more info about Muriel Rukeyser Muriel Rukeyser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Muriel Rukeyser Born: 15-Dec Birthplace: New York City Died: 12-Feb Location of death: New York City Cause of death: Stroke Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual Occupation: Poet Activist Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Book of the Dead Some time at the Roosevelt Aviation School gave Rukeyser background for her first book of poetry, Theory of Flight . Her best-known work is The Book of the Dead , a series of poems published in the volume U.S. 1 . Always an activist, she was a reporter arrested in 1933 during the Scottsboro Trials, protested the Vietnam War from Hanoi, and later the imprisonment on death row of fellow poet Kim Chi Ha by South Korea. Father: Lawrence Rukeyser (concrete salesman) Mother: Myra (bookkeeper) Sister: (younger) Husband: (m. 1945) Son: William L. Rukeyser (b. 1947, not born to her husband) University: Vassar College (two years) University: Columbia University (1930-32) Teacher: Vassar College Teacher: Sarah Lawrence College Teacher: California Labor School Guggenheim Fellowship Stroke German Ancestry Jewish Ancestry Risk Factors: Diabetes Author of books: Theory of Flight , poetry) U.S. 1

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26. Muriel Rukeyser Analysis muriel rukeyser compares loneliness and imperfection to a dark street at 2 o’clock in “Seventh Avenue”. 2 o’clock is “the cripples’ hour”, when disabled http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Muriel_Rukeyser/Samplepoemsrukeyser.

Echoes Main Biography Sample Poetry Inspired Poems ... Bibliography sample poems and analysis Then I Saw What The Calling Was-Analysis by Lauren Phipps “Then I Saw What The Calling Was” illustrates Rukseyser’s desire to be a poet as opposed to what others may have wanted her to be. Other people may have been pressuring her to be something that she was not; she wanted to become a poet. Her name is being called in the poem, but she realizes that it is not for her. Her true calling was with beautiful orchards, trees, and slopes, not t he typical New York landscape. “All the voices of the wood called ‘Muriel’/ but it was soon solved; it was nothing, it was not for me”. In these lines, Rukeyser hears her supposed destiny, but it turns out to be someone else’s life. Also, this shows her desire to live somewhere other than New York City, such as in the country, without the large skyscrapers and with open fields. The poet is trying to be led into a world and life that is not hers, so she ignores “the call” and finds her own world and her own life that is what she wants. There have been times in most people’s life, in which people have tried to turn us into someone we are not, for all those people; this poem is close to home. Then I Saw What The Calling Was by Muriel Rukeyser All the voices of the wood called “Muriel!”

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Home Search Indexes Browse ... creative Famous Creative Women Quotations from . . . Muriel Rukeyser 1913-1980) born on Dec 15 US poet, feminist, social reformer. She was noted for writing about feminist, social and political problems; "The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser," 1979. Search millions of documents for Muriel Rukeyser Creative Hats Time For Creativity The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting-place among the flight of things. I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Published Sources for Quotations Above: F: R: A: In "Poor Man's College Quotations Collection," ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994. N: K: Vintage Art Lofty Visions Nickelodeon Advertise Here!

28. Project MUSE See John Wheelwright, review of U. S. 1, by muriel rukeyser, Partisan Review 4 (March 1938) 55. Wheelwright s criticism of rukeyser is discussed in Walter http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v005/5.1kadlec.html

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31. The Collected Poems Of Muriel Rukeyser Known mainly for her political protest poems of the 1930s, muriel rukeyser was attacked throughout her career by the Left for not being Left enough, http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/fr/murielRukeyser.htm

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32. American Poets Project - Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems The poetry of muriel rukeyser confronts the turbulent currents of 20thcentury history, as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, http://www.americanpoetsproject.org/volume/1931082588

Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems edited by adrienne rich Above: Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich 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. ISBN: Price: Series number: 180 pp.

33. Muriel Rukeyser Criticism rukeyser, muriel 1913–1980. vision and found her poems simplistic and didactic. In the 1940s and 1950s, commentators often deemed the poems of her http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/rukeyser-muriel

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Muriel Rukeyser Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Muriel Rukeyser 1913–1980 American poet, biographer, translator, dramatist, scriptwriter, and author of children's books. INTRODUCTION Rukeyser is known for her poems exploring the causes and consequences of social and political injustice. Throughout her career she was concerned with the effects of technology, war, and social inequality on everyday life. In recent years some commentators have suggested that Rukeyser's complex, thoughtful verse has positioned her as a role model for subsequent generations of feminist and pacifist writers. Biographical Information Rukeyser was born in New York City and attended Vassar College and Columbia University. In the early 1930s, she began the political activism that characterized her life and work. Her first collection of verse, Theory of Flight , won the prestigious Yale Younger Poets prize in 1935. For the next forty-one years, Rukeyser published steadily, and her poetry, biographies, and essays reflected her involvement in teaching, child-rearing, and anti-war protests. In the early 1970s she flew to Hanoi to protest the imprisonment of Korean poet Kim Chi-Ha, an experience that would become the subject of her long poem

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35. Muriel Rukeyser John Gehl sends us this bio of the American writer muriel rukeyser (19131980), a passionate 20th century social activist and feminist poet who also http://wais.stanford.edu/Biographies/bio_MurielRukeyser.htm

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) John Gehl sends us this bio of the American writer Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), a passionate 20th century social activist and feminist poet who also compiled a respectable record as a dramatist, biographer, screenplay writer, and author of children's books. Rukeyser was born in New York City in 1913, attended private schools, and from 1930 to 1932 was a student at Vassar College. Her first poems were personal in nature and were published in Poetry magazine and other contemporary periodicals. Later her poetry took on a larger, social perspective. This shift in her writing was greatly influenced by her visit to Alabama to report on the Scottsboro Boys trial and her exposure to the opening events of the Spanish Revolution. Following that, she visited impoverished areas along the Atlantic seaboard, which provided material for telling the stories of miners dying of silicosis in West Virginia in such works as The Book of the Dead. For awhile Rukeyser edited the Housatonic , a literary journal. Later she was associate editor of the

36. Muriel Rukeyser's The Book Of The Dead By Tim Dayton The Book of the Dead by muriel rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2003/dayton.htm

UNIVERSITY OF M ISSOURI PRESS Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead Tim Dayton ISBN 0-8262-1469-X 176 pages 6 x 9 bibliography, index, 2003 The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men likely somewhere between 700 and 800 died of acute silicosis, a lung disorder caused by prolonged inhalation of silica dust, after working on a tunnel project in Fayette County, West Virginia, in the early 1930s. After many years of relative neglect, The Book of the Dead has recently returned to print and has become the subject of critical attention. In Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead," Tim Dayton continues that study by characterizing the literary and political world of Rukeyser at the time she wrote The Book of the Dead.

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He said he would be back and we'd drink wine together He said that everything would be better than before He said we were on the edge of a new relation He said he would never again cringe before his father He said that he was going to invent full-time He said he loved me that going into me He said was going into the world and the sky He said all the buckles were very firm He said the wax was the best wax He said Wait for me here on the beach He said Just don't cry I remember the gulls and the waves I remember the islands going dark on the sea I remember the girls laughing I remember they said he only wanted to get away from me I remember mother saying: Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot I remember she told me those who try out inventions are worse I remember she added: Women who love such are the worst of all I have been waiting all day, or perhaps longer. I would have liked to try those wings myself. It would have been better than this. Excerpted from Voice of the Poem Random House,

39. Muriel Rukeyser's Poem "Akiba" | The Shalom Center muriel rukeyser s poem Akiba . Pesach. Lives * By muriel rukeyser. AKIBA. The Way Out. The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man, http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1111

@import "misc/drupal.css"; @import "themes/shalom1/style.css"; Navigation GREEN MENORAH COVENANT (on climate crisis) Campaigns Take Action Celebrations ... Log in Change text size A A Home Celebrations ... Pesach Muriel Rukeyser's poem "Akiba" Pesach Lives * By Muriel Rukeyser AKIBA The Way Out The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man, with signs, and his journeys. Where the rock is split and speaks to the water; the flame speaks to the cloud: the red splatter, abstraction, on the door speaks to the angel and the constellations. The grains of sand on the sea floor speak at last to the noon. And the loud hammering of the land behind speaks ringing up the bones of our thighs, the hoofs, we hear the hoofs over the seethe of the sea. All night down the centuries, have heard, music of passage. Music of one child carried into the desert; Firstborn forbidden by law of the pyramid. Drawn through the water with the water-drawn people Led by the water drawn man to the smoke mountain. The voice of the world speaking, the world covered by signs, The burning, the loving, the speaking, the opening.

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