Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980

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Name (Latin)
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980
Other forms of name
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
Date of birth
1913-12-15
Date of death
1980-02-12
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Translators
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 137544
Wikidata: Q735177
Library of congress: n 79034264
Sources of Information
  • Aspects of modernity, 2014:page 89 ("'I wanted to go somewhere/The brain had not yet gone': Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich and the poetry of political investigation" / Janki Singh; Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), American radical feminist poet and political activist whose lifelong struggle was to make poetry the vehicle for social justice)
  • Her Theory of flight, 1935.
  • Her Willard Gibbs, 1987:CIP t.p. (Muriel Rukeyser) data sheet (b. Dec. 15, 1913; d. Feb. 12, 1980)
  • Sun stone,1963?:title page (Octavio Paz; translated by Muriel Rukeyeser)
  • Muriel Rukeyser; American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism ( (Wikipedia, Dec. 12, 2013) )
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Wikipedia description:

Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, and political activist. She wrote across genres and forms, addressing issues related to racial, gender, and class justice, war and war crimes, Jewish culture and diaspora, and American history, politics, and culture. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation." Anne Sexton famously described her as "beautiful Muriel, mother of everyone"; Adrienne Rich wrote that she was “our twentieth-century Coleridge; our Neruda." One of Rukeyser's most powerful pieces was the long poem The Book of the Dead (1938), which documented the details of the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, an industrial disaster in which hundreds of miners died of silicosis.

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