Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
Auteur de The Life of Poetry
A propos de l'auteur
During her five-decade literary career, Rukeyser provoked varying critical response; yet her passionate contribution to the contemporary literary and political scene cannot be doubted. An outspoken "spokespoet," she was always where the political action was. As a young reporter from Vassar, she afficher plus covered the 1932 Scottsboro Trial; some forty years later, she was jailed for her anti-Vietnam protests in Washington, D.C. So closely aligned is her activism to her art that several reviewers believe that the history of midcentury America can be garnered from her poetry. Yet, along with her outrage, Rukeyser's poetry is marked by optimism in a way that is reminiscent of Walt Whitman's verse. It is as though she believed that out of the pain of conflict will come a healing and transforming revelation. During her career, Rukeyser moved from a reliance on simple declaratives to a more sophisticated, private use of language; and, though she continued to deal with politics all her life, later poems also treat personal subjects---her role as mother and daughter, her sexual feelings for women and men, the illness that led to her death. From beginning to end, she was honored for her contribution to poetry: with the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1935 for Theory of Flight to the tribute paid her at the annual New York Quarterly Poetry Day in 1977. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Muriel Rukeyser
Bubbles (Curriculum-related books) 4 exemplaires
Orpheus 2 exemplaires
A Turning Wind 2 exemplaires
I Go Out 2 exemplaires
Wake Island 1 exemplaire
Selected Poems: The New Classics Series 1 exemplaire
Rukeyser, Muriel Archive 1 exemplaire
Early Poems 1935-1955 1 exemplaire
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The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contributeur — 180 exemplaires
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War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with Disabilities (1987) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
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Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1913-12-15
- Date de décès
- 1980-02-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Cause du décès
- stroke
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Vassar College
Columbia University
Ethical Culture Fieldston School - Professions
- editor
poet
critic
biographer
translator - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1967)
- Prix et distinctions
- Shelley Memorial Award (1976/1977)
Copernicus Award (1977)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1942)
Harriet Monroe Poetry Award
Membres
Critiques
Willard Gibbs par Muriel Rukeyser
First edition
Until recently I generally dipped into my poetry books at random and read a few pages at a sitting. I might in this haphazard manner read a complete volume. There was no plan & this would generally only with my most beloved poets. A few years ago, I began to read complete volumes. It points your attention to themes running through a volume of poems. With "Collected" or "Selected" Works, reading the complete volumes allows one to follow the arc of the poet's interests & craft. To me, Muriel Rukeyser's voice grew clearer and stronger as her life progressed. Her last poems have an urgency that has built to a crescendo.… (plus d'informations)
I thought I'd try to give a book of poetry a try, but I lack the attention span for an entire book of poems, and I couldn't read it before it was due back at the library. I'll have to buy a copy and take my time instead of trying to power through. (Powering through poetry is sacrilege anyway, or at least pointless.)
I am fascinated by Rukeyser's personal story & her engagement with history. Although her thinking in these essays is sometimes fuzzy & her use of abstractions, such as truth, reality, imagination, consciousness & even language, is often contradictory (she says one thing & then, shortly thereafter, seems to say its opposite), she repeatedly won me over when her poet's voice sneaks into her prose. For example, when she characterizes Emily Dickenson's style as one of a "slang of strictness" or when she talks about poetry as a "transfer of human energy." I loved Chapter Twelve, "Out of Childhood," which is composed of impressionistic vignettes (film stills)that summarize & encapsulate the author's childhood & coming to maturity, both as a person & a writer. Compressed, evocative & vastly informative in their succinctness. Worth the price of the book.… (plus d'informations)
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