Book Description
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) published her first book—the powerfully experimental Theory of Flight—at age twenty-two, and went on to an adventurous and prolific career as poet, translator, and political activist. Her expansive energies sought a poetry in which politics, geography, sexuality, mythology, and autobiography could find fused and fluid expression. From her early, brilliantly cinematic "Poem Out of Childhood" through excerpts from her long wartime "Letter to the Front" to her late "Resurrection of the Right Side," written after her stroke, this selection represents the many sides and selves of a major poet.

About the Author
Adrienne Rich is the author of nearly twenty volumes of poetry and the recipient of a National Book Award.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Muriel Rukeyser (1913￯﾿ﾽ80) published her first book—the powerfully experimental Theory of Flight—at age twenty-two, and went on to an adventurous and prolific career as poet, translator, and political activist. Her expansive energies sought a poetry in which politics, geography, sexuality, mythology, and autobiography could find fused and fluid expression. From her early, brilliantly cinematic ￯﾿ﾽPoem Out of Childhood￯﾿ﾽ through excerpts from her long wartime ￯﾿ﾽLetter to the Front￯﾿ﾽ to her late ￯﾿ﾽResurrection of the Right Side,￯﾿ﾽ written after her stroke, this selection represents the many sides and selves of a major poet.