About Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser (15 December 1913 – 12 February 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation". One of her most powerful pieces was a group of poems entitled The Book of the Dead (1938), documenting the details of the Hawk's Nest incident, an industrial disaster in which hundreds of miners died of silicosis.
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The Ballad Of Orange And Grape
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In Your Time
Waiting For Icarus
Night Feeding
The Poem As Mask
To Be A Jew In The Twentieth Century
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The Speed Of Darkness
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