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Books by Muriel Rukeyser
  | | The Book of the Dead(1st Edition) by Muriel Rukeyser, Catherine Venable Moore Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2018 by West Virginia University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-946684-21-9, ISBN: 1-946684-21-X "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 r ..." |
 | | Houdini(1st Edition) A Musical by Muriel Rukeyser, David Spangler Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Paris Press ISBN-13: 978-1-930464-05-6, ISBN: 1-930464-05-3 "This previously unpublished work presents the spectacular life of world-renowned escape artist, Harry Houdini. Part biography part fantasy, Houdini unlocks Rukeyser's worlds of illusion and reality as she leads us from Houdini's childhood in Appleton, Wisconsin (picking up pins with his eyelids) to his acts under water and onstage. We meet his wife Bess, his mother, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the poet's own Marco Bone, vehicle of voices, s ..." |
 | | The Life of Poetry(1st Edition) by Muriel Rukeyser, Jane Cooper Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1996 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9638183-3-1, ISBN: 0-9638183-3-3 "In an era in which art is increasingly dictated by marketers, and publishers and filmmakers don't seem to make a move without first consulting focus groups, poetry might seem, at first, a bit superfluous. It's "difficult," for one thing, subject to many interpretations; it's also deeply personal, unsuited to creation by committee. So what possible use does the modern world have for poetry? Muriel Rukeyser answers this question in The Li ..." |
 | | Savage Coast (Lost & Found Elsewhere) by Muriel Rukeyser, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by The Feminist Press At Cuny ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-820-6, ISBN: 1-55861-820-1 ""At first Savage Coast” is a train-of-fools comedy; later, it’s a cross-cultural love story Hemingway would have envied for its suddenness." New York Times Book Review"Rejected by her publisher in 1937, poet Rukeyser’s newly discovered autobiographical novel is both an absorbing read and an important contribution to 20th-century history.... Ironically, the factors that led to the novel’s rejectionRukeyser’s avant-garde impressionisti ..." |
 | | Elegies(1st Edition) by Muriel Rukeyser, Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2013 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2106-1, ISBN: 0-8112-2106-7 "An elegant relaunch of Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies, previously available only in a limited edition, celebrates the centennial of her birth"Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest." ― Muriel Rukeyser, “Elegy in Joy”First published by New Directions in 1949, Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies were written over a seven years period the end of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the beginnings of th ..." |
 | | Muriel Rukeyser(1st Edition) Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #9) by Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Cecile Rich Hardcover, 230 Pages, Published 2004 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-931082-58-7, ISBN: 1-931082-58-8 "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 wo ..." |
 | | Out of Silence(1st Edition) Selected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Kate Rukeyser Daniels, Kate Daniels Paperback, Published 1992 by Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University ISBN-13: 978-0-916384-07-4, ISBN: 0-916384-07-1 |
 | | Come Together(1st Edition) Imagine Peace: Poems (Harmony Anthology Series) by Ann Smith, Philip Metres, Larry Smith, Denise Levertov, Sam Hamill, William Stafford, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Muriel Rukeyser, Contributor-Carolyn Forch, Bottom Dog Press Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933964-22-5, ISBN: 1-933964-22-7 "100 poets voice their concern and vision for peace. Poems of Witness & Elegy, Exhortation & Action, Reconciliation, Shared Humanity,Wildness & Home, Ritual & Vigil,Meditation & Prayer. Precedents: Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, Cavafy, Millay, Patchen, Rexroth, Shapiro,Lowell, Creeley, Rukeyser, Ginsberg, Levertov, Lorde, Stafford, Jordan, Amichai, DarwishContemporaries: Abinader, Ali, Bass, Berry, Bauer, Berrigan, Bly, Bodhr�n, Bradley, B ..." |
 | | Breaking open(1st Edition) by Muriel Rukeyser Hardcover, 135 Pages, Published 1973 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-394-48696-3, ISBN: 0-394-48696-X "Breaking Open" |
 | | The Traces of Thomas Hariot(1st Edition) by Muriel Rukeyser Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 1971 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-394-44923-4, ISBN: 0-394-44923-1 "251 Hakluyt, Richard, 58, 68, 76, 77, 133, 140, 200, 271 Halley's comet, 10, 199 Hariot, John, 288 Hariot, Thomas, 3-20, 25, 27-35, 37, 40, 46-48, 51-56, 58, 60- 62, 63, 64, 67-68, 72, 77, 81-82, 92-93, 104-6, 108, iio-ii, 1 16-21, 125, 128, 131, ..." |
 | | Configurations Poetry by Octavio Paz Lozano, Muriel Rukeyser, Various Trans Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1971 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-0150-6, ISBN: 0-8112-0150-3 "Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Laureate, has won distinction as an anthropologist, philosopher and critic of art and literature. But it is as a poet that he is most celebrated.Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition incl ..." |
 | | Houdini(1st Edition) A Musical (Hardback) by Muriel Rukeyser, David Spangler Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Paris Press ISBN-13: 978-1-930464-04-9, ISBN: 1-930464-04-5 |
 | | The Orgy(Reprint) An Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation by Muriel Rukeyser, Sharon Olds Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9638183-2-4, ISBN: 0-9638183-2-5 "Those who have traveled know the experience of extended time and sharpened perception. Muriel Rukeyser's account of Puck Fair — the last existing pagan festival of the goat — captures just that state of consciousness. Set in County Kerry, Ireland, The Orgy evokes this great American poet's journey of sensual and psychological transformation in the midst of a lush account of Irish culture and tradition. With a preface by Sharon Olds." |
 | | Out of Silence Selected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Kate Daniels Hardcover, 162 Pages, Published 1992 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916384-11-1, ISBN: 0-916384-11-X |
 | | The Poems of Octavio Paz(1st Edition) by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 2018 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2756-8, ISBN: 0-8112-2756-1 "Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureateThe Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Paz’s ..." |
 | | Willard Gibbs(Reprint) by Muriel Rukeyser Paperback, 465 Pages, Published 1988 by Ox Bow Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-918024-56-5, ISBN: 0-918024-56-0 "Book by Rukeyser, Muriel" |
 | | A Muriel Rukeyser Reader(Updated) by Muriel Rukeyser, Jan Heller Levi, Adrienne Rich Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31323-9, ISBN: 0-393-31323-9 ""In many ways, " writes Adrienne Rich in her Introduction, "Muriel Rukeyser was beyond her time - and seems, at the edge of the twenty-first century, to have grasped resources we are only now beginning to reach for: the connections between history and the body, memory and politics, sexuality and public space, poetry and physical science, and much else. She spoke as a poet, first and foremost; but she spoke also as a thinking activist, b ..." |
 | | The Essential Muriel Rukeyser Poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Natasha Trethewey Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-298549-1, ISBN: 0-06-298549-3 "The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha TretheweyEngaging 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 mo ..." |
 | | Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-815-2, ISBN: 1-55861-815-5 |
 | | Mexico Photographs by Mark Cohen by Mark Cohen, Octavio Paz, Muriel Rukeyser, Jorge Volpi Escalante Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-1171-4, ISBN: 1-4773-1171-8 ""I made these pictures exactly as if I was taking pictures in Wilkes-Barre, my hometown. I was led only by what I could see on the street. Of course, the extreme newness of this giant country, Mexico, was shocking to me. There really is surrealism in the air." -Mark Cohen Between 1981 and 2003, Mark Cohen travelled to Mexico eight times. Seduced by the "surrealist" qualities he found there, Cohen took his camera to the streets of Mexico ..." |
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