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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments and Permissions
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Note on This Textual Edition
  8. Editors’ Introduction
    1. All You Have to Do Is Challenge Them: The Muriel Rukeyser Era, Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
  9. Author’s Introduction
    1. Biographical Statement for “Under Forty: A Symposium on American Literature and the Younger Generation of American Jews” (1944), Muriel Rukeyser
  10. PART I. THE USABLE TRUTH: FIVE TALKS ON COMMUNICATION AND POETRY
    1. 1. “The Fear of Poetry” (1940, 1941)
    2. 2. “The Speed of the Image” (1940)
    3. 3. “Belief and Poetry” (1940)
    4. 4. “Poetry and Peace” (1940)
    5. 5. “Communication and Poetry” (1940)
  11. PART II. TWENTIETH-CENTURY RADICALISM: ON POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
    1. 6. “The Flown Arrow: The Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case” (1932)
    2. 7. “From Scottsboro to Decatur” (1933)
    3. 8. “Women and Scottsboro” (1933)
    4. 9. “Barcelona on the Barricades” (1936)
    5. 10. “Barcelona, 1936” (1936)
    6. 11. “Words and Images” (1943)
    7. 12. “War and Poetry” (1945)
    8. 13. “A Pane of Glass” (1953)
    9. 14. “She Came to Us” (1958)
    10. 15. “The Killing of the Children” (1973)
    11. 16. “The Uses of Fear” (1978)
  12. PART III. MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION: A PHOTO-TEXT AND RADIO SCRIPTS
    1. 17. “So Easy to See” (1946), Photography-and-Text Collaboration with Berenice Abbott
    2. 18. From Sunday at Nine (1949), Scripts for Two Radio Broadcasts
      1. Series Introduction Episode One: Emily Dickinson
      2. Episode Four: The Blues
  13. PART IV. MODERNIST INTERVENTIONS: ON GENDER, POETRY, AND POETICS
    1. 19. “Modern Trends: American Poetry” (1932)
    2. 20. “Long Step Ahead Taken by Gregory in New Epic Poem” (1935), review of Horace Gregory’s Chorus for Survival
    3. 21. “In a Speaking Voice” (1939), review of Robert Frost’s Collected Poems
    4. 22. “The Classic Ground” (1941), review of Marya Zaturenska’s The Listening Landscape
    5. 23. “Nearer to the Well-Spring” (1943), review of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus
    6. 24. “A Simple Theme” (1949), review of Charlotte Marletto’s Jewel of Our Longing
    7. 25. “A Lorca Evening” (1951)
    8. 26. “Many Keys” (1957), on women’s poetry
    9. 27. “Lyrical ‘Rage’” (1957), review of Kenneth Rexroth’s In Defense of the Earth
    10. 28. “A Crystal for the Metaphysical” (1966), review of Marianne Moore’s Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics
    11. 29. “Poetry and the Unverifiable Fact” (1968)
    12. 30. “The Music of Translation” (1971)
    13. 31. “Thoreau and Poetry” (1972)
    14. 32. “Glitter and Wounds, Several Wildnesses” (1973), review of Anne Sexton’s The Book of Folly
    15. 33. “The Life to Which I Belong” (1974), review of Franz Kafka’s Letters to Felice
    16. 34. “Women of Words: A Prefatory Note” (1974)
  14. Appendix: Bibliographic and Archival Information for Selections by Muriel Rukeyser
  15. Notes on Contributors
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Copyright

New York formed me and bore me, Spain made me, California tore me apart, my child and my wilderness, Gave me a ship to be my vision of life

—Muriel Rukeyser, note on a draft table of contents for her Selected Poems , c. 1950–1951

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