The Essential Muriel Rukeyser

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780062985507

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The Essential Muriel Rukeyser by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

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.

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poetry
ISBN : OCLC:80022171

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The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

Author : Catherine Gander
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748670550

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Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary by Catherine Gander Pdf

Provides a new perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser's work and influencesWinner of the inaugural Peggy O'Brien Book Prize of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS)

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558618206

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Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 194668421X

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The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015002750753

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The Speed of Darkness by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141996363

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The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan Pdf

The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker) For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living, breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly, put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides. Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines, virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of Jordan's irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan allows new readers to discover - and old fans to rediscover - the vital work of this endlessly surprising poet who, in the words of Adrienne Rich, believed that 'genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality.'

Author : Tim Dayton
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826263148

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Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead by Tim Dayton Pdf

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. Rukeyser’s poem clearly emerges from 1930s radicalism, as well as from Rukeyser’s deeply felt calling to poetry. After describing the world from which the poem emerged, Dayton sets up the fundamental factual matters with which the poem is concerned, detailing the circumstances of the Gauley Tunnel tragedy, and establishes a framework derived from the classical tripartite division of the genres—epic, lyric, and dramatic. Through this framework, he sees Rukeyser presenting a multifaceted reflection upon the significance, particularly the historical significance, of the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. For Rukeyser, that disaster was the emblem of a history in which those who do the work of the world are denied control of the vast powers they bring into being. Dayton also studies the critical reception of The Book of the Dead and determines that while the contemporary response was mixed, most reviewers felt that Rukeyser had certainly attempted something of value and significance. He pays particular attention to John Wheelwright’s critical review and to the defenses of Rukeyser launched in the 1980s and 1990s by Louise Kertesz and Walter Kalaidjian. The author also examines the relationship between Marxism as a theory of history governing The Book of the Dead and the poem itself, which presents a vision of history. Based upon primary scholarship in Rukeyser’s papers, a close reading of the poem, and Marxist theory, Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” offers a comprehensive and compelling analysis of The Book of the Dead and will likely remain the definitive work on this poem.

Author : Solmaz Sharif
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781526655288

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Customs by Solmaz Sharif Pdf

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A New Yorker Essential Read of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 An NPR Best Book of 2022 A Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022 _______________ 'Witty and incisive... [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief' New York Times _______________ The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, a National Book Award finalist With Customs, Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced questions about what it means to belong to a place. In the face of hard borders these poems seek a reckoning with the structures, in society, in language itself, by which these limits act on us. Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal; to navigate a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that can become a relentless challenge; a mutating shibboleth. Through the poet's adept balancing of tonal and formal elements, these poems interrogate the 'customs' of the nation-state, of the English language, of the paces these systems put us through. But this work is not enjoined to a hopeless quest. Instead, the propulsive force that informs each line, each white space, and punctuation mark, is a powerfully galvanizing and healing force. Customs reminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do.

Author : Natasha D. Trethewey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781328507846

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Monument by Natasha D. Trethewey Pdf

Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey's new and selected poems, drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, while also including new work written over the last decade.

Author : Ann Smith,Larry Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015062522670

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Family Matters by Ann Smith,Larry Smith Pdf

Poetry. Anthology. FAMILY MATTERS contains over 150 fine poems of families dealing with: Birth, Children, Couples, Parenting, Family Portraits, Family Life, Aging & Death. Featuring 100 poets, including: Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Patchen, Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser, Galway Kinnell, James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, Li-Young Lee, Antler, Joy Harjo, Maggie Anderson, David Ray, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Jim Daniels, Gary Soto, Richard Garcia, Vivian Shipley, Irene McKinney, Hershman John, Peter Meinke, Lynn Powell, Susan Terris, Ron Wallace, Toshi Washizu, and 80 more

Author : Eric Schocket
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472115693

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Vanishing Moments by Eric Schocket Pdf

Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of class stratification and demonstrates how deeply America’s desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes, among others, and explores how these authors worked to try to heal the rift between the classes. He considers the challenges writers faced before the Civil War in developing a language of class amidst the predominant concerns about race and slavery; how early literary realists dealt with the threat of class insurrection; how writers at the turn of the century attempted to span the divide between the classes by going undercover as workers; how early modernists used working-class characters and idioms to shape their aesthetic experiments; and how leftists in the 1930s struggled to develop an adequate model to connect class and literature. Vanishing Moments’ unique combination of a broad historical scope and in-depth readings makes it an essential book for scholars and students of American literature and culture, as well as for political scientists, economists, and humanists. Eric Schocket is Associate Professor of American Literature at Hampshire College. “An important book containing many brilliant arguments—hard-hitting and original. Schocket demonstrates a sophisticated acquaintance with issues within the working-class studies movement.” --Barbara Foley, Rutgers University

Author : Notes From Nowhere
Publisher : Verso
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1859844472

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We Are Everywhere by Notes From Nowhere Pdf

We Are Everywhere is a whirlwind collection of writings, images and ideas for direct action by people on the frontlines of the global anticapitalist movement. This is a movement of untold stories, because those from below are not those who get to write history, even though we are the ones making it. We Are Everywhere wrenches our history from the grasp of the powerful and returns it to the streets, fields and neighbourhoods where it was made.

Author : Natasha Trethewey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015049970307

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Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey Pdf

In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labour-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, and the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone.

Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:5688064

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Theory of Flight by Muriel Rukeyser Pdf