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THE MURIEL RUKEYSER ERA

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments and Permissions

List of Abbreviations

Note on This Textual Edition

Editors’ Introduction

All You Have to Do Is Challenge Them: The Muriel Rukeyser Era, Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Author’s Introduction

Biographical Statement for “Under Forty: A Symposium on American Literature and the Younger Generation of American Jews” (1944), Muriel Rukeyser

PART I. THE USABLE TRUTH: FIVE TALKS ON COMMUNICATION AND POETRY

1. “The Fear of Poetry” (1940, 1941)

2. “The Speed of the Image” (1940)

3. “Belief and Poetry” (1940)

4. “Poetry and Peace” (1940)

5. “Communication and Poetry” (1940)

PART II. TWENTIETH-CENTURY RADICALISM: ON POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE

6. “The Flown Arrow: The Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case” (1932)

7. “From Scottsboro to Decatur” (1933)

8. “Women and Scottsboro” (1933)

9. “Barcelona on the Barricades” (1936)

10. “Barcelona, 1936” (1936)

11. “Words and Images” (1943)

12. “War and Poetry” (1945)

13. “A Pane of Glass” (1953)

14. “She Came to Us” (1958)

15. “The Killing of the Children” (1973)

16. “The Uses of Fear” (1978)

PART III. MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION: A PHOTO-TEXT AND RADIO SCRIPTS

17. “So Easy to See” (1946), Photography-and-Text Collaboration with Berenice Abbott

18. From Sunday at Nine (1949), Scripts for Two Radio Broadcasts

Series Introduction

Episode One: Emily Dickinson

Episode Four: The Blues

PART IV. MODERNIST INTERVENTIONS: ON GENDER, POETRY, AND POETICS

19. “Modern Trends: American Poetry” (1932)

20. “Long Step Ahead Taken by Gregory in New Epic Poem” (1935), review of Horace Gregory’s Chorus for Survival

21. “In a Speaking Voice” (1939), review of Robert Frost’s Collected Poems

22. “The Classic Ground” (1941), review of Marya Zaturenska’s The Listening Landscape

23. “Nearer to the Well-Spring” (1943), review of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus

24. “A Simple Theme” (1949), review of Charlotte Marletto’s Jewel of Our Longing

25. “A Lorca Evening” (1951)

26. “Many Keys” (1957), on women’s poetry

27. “Lyrical ‘Rage’” (1957), review of Kenneth Rexroth’s In Defense of the Earth

28. “A Crystal for the Metaphysical” (1966), review of Marianne Moore’s Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics

29. “Poetry and the Unverifiable Fact” (1968)

30. “The Music of Translation” (1971)

31. “Thoreau and Poetry” (1972)

32. “Glitter and Wounds, Several Wildnesses” (1973), review of Anne Sexton’s The Book of Folly

33. “The Life to Which I Belong” (1974), review of Franz Kafka’s Letters to Felice

34. “Women of Words: A Prefatory Note” (1974)

Appendix: Bibliographic and Archival Information for Selections by Muriel Rukeyser

Notes on Contributors

Selected Bibliography

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS