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THE MURIEL RUKEYSER ERA: APPENDIX

THE MURIEL RUKEYSER ERA
APPENDIX

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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

APPENDIX

Bibliographic and Archival Information for Selections by Muriel Rukeyser

Full bibliographic information about each of this volume’s selections is supplied below, in order of appearance. All extant draft materials were consulted in the preparation of this edition, but only significantly different drafts of previously published items are noted below. For a key to the editorial abbreviations, see the List of Abbreviations at the start of this volume.

Front Cover

The Four Fears (1955), 8.5” x 11” gouache painting. Box II:20, Muriel Rukeyser Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, hereafter cited as LC, followed by series and container number.

Author’s Introduction

Untitled statement. In “Under Forty: A Symposium on American Literature and the Younger Generation of American Jews,” 4–9. Contemporary Jewish Record 7, no. 1 (February 1944): 3–36.

Part I. The Usable Truth: Five Talks on Communication and Poetry

The Usable Truth: Five Talks on Communication and Poetry. Lectures, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 29–November 1, 1940. Fc: The Usable Truth. Unpublished ts draft with Rukeyser’s holo. notes, October 29–November 1, 1940. LC I:43. The last four lectures are previously unpublished. “The Fear of Poetry” was published in Twice a Year, Fall/Winter 1941, 15–33, with Rukeyser’s poems “Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds” and “Lyric from Mediterranean.” An abbreviated excerpt of “Communication and Poetry” was published as “The Usable Truth” in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, July 1941, 206–209. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20582634. Rukeyser’s fc for the Vassar talks supplies ct for the last four lectures in this edition. The published article “The Fear of Poetry” supplies the first lecture’s ct.

Part II. Twentieth-Century Radicalism: On Politics, Society, and Culture

“The Flown Arrow: The Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.” Housatonic: A Magazine for and about New England, August 1932, 9–10, 24–26.

“From Scottsboro to Decatur.” Student Review, April 1933, 12–15.

“Women and Scottsboro.” Previously unpublished, 1933. Fc: Women and Scottsboro. Unpublished ts draft with Rukeyser’s holo. corrections, n.d. [1933]. Muriel Rukeyser Collection of Papers, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, New York, New York.

“Barcelona on the Barricades.” New Masses, September 1, 1936, 9–11. Part of “Liberty versus Death in Spain,” a multi-author feature on the Spanish Civil War.

“Barcelona, 1936.” Life and Letters To-day, Autumn 1936, 26–33. First recovered version: Muriel Rukeyser. “Barcelona, 1936” and Selections from the Civil War Archive. Edited by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, 9–22. New York: Lost & Found, 2011.

“Words and Images.” New Republic, August 2, 1943, 140–142.

“War and Poetry.” In The War Poets: An Anthology of the War Poetry of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Oscar William, 25–26. New York: John Day, 1945.

“A Pane of Glass.” Discovery, April 1953, 29–37.

“She Came to Us.” New Statesman (UK), November 8, 1958, 625–626. Draft: She Came to Us. Unpublished ts draft with holo. notes, n.d. [c. 1957–1958]. LC I:16. Archived with two incomplete unpublished ts drafts of a story titled “The Week They Wore Their—.” This edition’s version restores material from the full unpublished draft that was omitted from the published article.

“The Killing of the Children.” Previously unpublished, n.d. [1973]. Fc: The Killing of the Children. Ts draft, n.d. [1973]. LC I:16. Also see Muriel Rukeyser. “Free—What Do It Mean?” Washington Evening Star and Washington Daily News, November 30, 1972.

“The Uses of Fear.” Originally published as “The Fear.” New York Times, June 19, 1978. Fc: The Uses of Fear. Ts draft with Rukeyser’s holo. corrections, June 1978. LC I:16. This edition restores Rukeyser’s original title and material omitted from the published version.

Part III. Media and Democratic Education: A Photo-Text and Radio Scripts

“So Easy to See.” Previously unpublished, n.d. [1946]. Fc: Introduction [to So Easy to See, incomplete collaboration with Berenice Abbott]. Unpublished ts draft, n.d. [1946]. LC II:12. Draft: Seeing Things. Unpublished holo. draft, n.d. [c. 1946]. LC II:12.

From Sunday at Nine. Previously unpublished, 1949. Fc (Series introduction and episode 1): KDFC Sunday at Nine (Emily Dickinson Program—Aug. 7). Unpublished ts production script with Rukeyser’s holo. notes and unidentified holo. engineering cues, n.d. [August 1949]. LC I:42. Draft (full series): Sunday at Nine: First Four Programs. Unpublished ts and holo. drafts of scripts, n.d. [1949]. LC II:14. Scripts for the series introduction and the first and last episodes have been selected for this edition. Rukeyser’s unpublished holo. draft script supplies the ct for this edition of the final episode, for which there are neither extant production scripts nor engineering cues.

Part IV. Modernist Interventions: On Gender, Poetry, and Poetics

“Modern Trends: American Poetry.” Vassar Miscellany News, May 21, 1932.

“Long Step Ahead Taken by Gregory in New Epic Poem.” Review of Chorus for Survival, by Horace Gregory. Daily Worker, March 19, 1935.

“In a Speaking Voice.” Review of Collected Poems, by Robert Frost. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, July 1939, 218–224.

“The Classic Ground.” Review of The Listening Landscape, by Marya Zaturenska. Decision, June 1941, 81–83.

“Nearer to the Well-Spring.” Review of Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton. Kenyon Review, Summer 1943, 451–454.

“A Simple Theme.” Review of Jewel of Our Longing, by Charlotte Marletto. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, July 1949, 236–239.

“A Lorca Evening.” Previously unpublished, 1951. Fc: Unpublished untitled ts draft of talk on Federico García Lorca, February 1, 1951. LC I:43. Also see Muriel Rukeyser. Notes on Lorca at Vassar. Unpublished ts outline, with unpublished translation of Federico García Lorca’s Vassar lecture on duende, n.d. [1951]. LC I:43.

“Many Keys.” Posthumously published, 2017; written, 1957. Fc: Many Keys. Unpublished ts draft, n.d. [1957]. LC I:16. Draft: Many Keys. Unpublished ts draft [first full draft], n.d. [1957]. LC I:16 and I:44. Notes: The Glass Woman. Unpublished holo. notes, n.d. [c. 1956–1957]. LC I:34. First recovered version: Muriel Rukeyser. “Many Keys.” Edited by Eric Keenaghan, in Keenaghan, “There Is No Glass Woman: Muriel Rukeyser’s Lost Essay ‘Many Keys,’” 193–198. Feminist Modernist Studies 1, nos. 1–2 (2018): 186–204. doi:10.1080/24692921.2017.1368883.

“Lyrical ‘Rage.’” Review of In Defense of the Earth, by Kenneth Rexroth. Saturday Review, November 9, 1957, 15.

“A Crystal for the Metaphysical.” Review of Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics, by Marianne Moore. Saturday Review, October 1, 1966, 52–53, 81. This edition is an abridged version of the published review.

“Poetry and the Unverifiable Fact.” In The Clark Lecture, 1968: An Address by Muriel Rukeyser, Scripps College Bulletin 42, no. 4, extra ed. no. 3 (1968): 1–21. The issue also includes Rukeyser’s lecture “Opening Convocation,” 23–36.

“The Music of Translation.” In The World of Translation: Papers Delivered at the Conference on Literary Translation, 187–193. New York: PEN American Center, 1971.

“Thoreau and Poetry.” In Henry David Thoreau: Studies and Commentaries. Edited by Walter Harding, George Brenner, and Paul A. Doyle, 103–116. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972. Based on a talk at the Thoreau Festival, Nassau Community College, Long Island, New York, May 1967. Notes: Muriel Rukeyser. Unpublished untitled ts and holo. notes on Henry David Thoreau, n.d. [c. 1967]. LC I:34.

“Glitter and Wounds, Several Wildnesses.” Review of The Book of Folly, by Anne Sexton. Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Fall/Winter 1973, 215–221. Draft: “. . . and not be afraid of her bed.” Unpublished ts and holo. draft review of Love Poems, by Anne Sexton, n.d. [c. 1970]. LC I:17.

“The Life to Which I Belong.” Review of Letters to Felice, by Franz Kafka. American Poetry Review, May-June 1974, 8–9. Originally published with Rukeyser’s poems “How We Did It,” “Then,” “Before Danger,” “The Iris-Eaters,” “Not to Be Printed, Not to Be Said, Not to Be Thought,” “Recovering,” “Trinity Churchyard,” “Parallel Invention,” and “Ives.”

“Women of Words: A Prefatory Note.” Preface to The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America, 1552–1950. Edited by Louise Berkinow, xiii–xv. New York: Random House, 1974.

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