A Muriel Rukeyser reader
By: edited by Jan Heller Levi ; with an introduction by Adrienne Rich.
Contributors: Levi, Jan Heller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Description: "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, biographer, traveler, explorer of her country's psychic geography.".

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."
Notes: Includes index.