Muriel Rukeyser was born on this day in 1913. She is one of my favourite poets.
"One of her favourite assignments for her poetry writing students was to begin a poem with the words 'I could not say.'" #MurielRukeyser
"One of her favourite assignments for her poetry writing students was to begin a poem with the words 'I could not say.'" #MurielRukeyser
So many poems I love by her, including this one which is especially resonant.
Poem is from The Speed of Darkness, published in 1968. How resonant is what she describes these days? #MurielRukeyser poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/po…
Poem is from The Speed of Darkness, published in 1968. How resonant is what she describes these days? #MurielRukeyser poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/po…
Here is an animated version of Poem #MurielRukeyser poetryfoundation.org/video/146443/p…
“Most mornings I would be more or less insane,
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,
The news would pour out of various devices
....
I would call my friends on other devices;
They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.” #MurielRukeyser
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,
The news would pour out of various devices
....
I would call my friends on other devices;
They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.” #MurielRukeyser
How documentary form and anarchist principles she encountered in Catalonia helped #MurielRukeyser's writing - from intro to Savage Coast (text in jpgs from here) theparisreview.org/blog/2013/06/1…
How #MurielRukeyser broke silences and taboos that imposed "modesty" on women - from intro to Muriel Rukeyser: Out of Silence (apologies I don’t have a link for this)
“the year whose fires would not stop.”
I’ve read that line from a poem she wrote for Otto Boch so many times, and I saw their revolutionary love that began at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Now I see this line.
#MurielRukeyser atomikaztex.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/for…
I’ve read that line from a poem she wrote for Otto Boch so many times, and I saw their revolutionary love that began at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Now I see this line.
#MurielRukeyser atomikaztex.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/for…
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
“#MurielRukeyser wrote that in 1968, even though she’d been splitting the world open for decades already,” @sweetmachineSP the-toast.net/2013/11/01/mur…
“#MurielRukeyser wrote that in 1968, even though she’d been splitting the world open for decades already,” @sweetmachineSP the-toast.net/2013/11/01/mur…
“She’d gone from literary wunderkind to lefty pariah to feminist heroine precisely because of her commitment to telling the truth–about one woman’s life, yes, but also about many, many women’s lives, about the lives that weren’t yet celebrated in poetry.”
“When you said you loved me, I saw the future stand up
free and alive...
...........
When I left you, you stood on the pier and held
your face up and never smiled, saying what we had found
was a gift of the revolution...”
- Muriel Rukeyser, For O. B.
free and alive...
...........
When I left you, you stood on the pier and held
your face up and never smiled, saying what we had found
was a gift of the revolution...”
- Muriel Rukeyser, For O. B.
Read more about #MurielRukeyser and explore some of her poems poetryfoundation.org/poets/muriel-r…
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