Muriel Rukeyser
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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.
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Irving LernerAlso in A Place to Live (1941)
Joy DavidmanAlso won Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Eileen MylesAlso won Shelley Memorial Award
Delmore SchwartzAlso won Shelley Memorial Award
Dorothy B. HughesAlso won Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
John AshberyAlso won Yale Series of Younger Poets CompetitionAbout this person
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."
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