A Muriel Rukeyser Reader

by Jan Heller Levi (Editor)

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393313239
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/1995
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jan Heller Levi’s third collection of poems, Orphan, will be published in January 2014 by Alice James Books. She is the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader and is currently writing a biography of Rukeyser, forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf, with Christoph Keller.   She teaches at Hunter College in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

"A visionary poet . . . Muriel Rukeyser speaks to us today in the name of courage, full consciousness, and the making of connections. This is a life-giving collection."

Jane Cooper

"One of the most important poets of our time. . . . Her originality, her genius, her courage illuminate our century."

Sharon Olds