Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser 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."
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityVassar CollegeEthical Culture Fieldston School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Shelley Memorial Award🏆 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
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Trending topics shown first"This is to be a summary poem of the life of the Atlantic coast of this country, nourished by the communications which run down it. Gauley Bridge is inland, but it was created by theories, systems, and…"
"We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us."
"How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illum…"
"'On the centenary of Muriel Rukeyser’s birth: the lives of a poet' by Catherine Gander"
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Timeline
1913
Born
Birth1980
Died
Death
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