The Essential Muriel Rukeyser by Muriel Rukeyser -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Publisher’s Note Contents Introduction From Theory of Fight

Notes for a Poem Effort at Speech Between Two People Sonnet This House, This Country Sand-Quarry with Moving Figures For Memory City of Monuments Metaphor to Action The Blood Is Justified

From U.S. 1

The Road West Virginia Statement: Philippa Allen Gauley Bridge The Face of the Dam: Vivian Jones Praise of the Committee Mearl Blankenship Absalom The Disease George Robinson: Blues Juanita Tinsley The Doctors The Cornfield Arthur Peyton Alloy The Disease: After-Effects The Bill The Book of the Dead

From A Turning Wind

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From Beast in View

Song Love and Its Doors and Windows Bubble of Air Letter to the Front The Soul and Body of John Brown

From The Green Wave

This Place in the Ways Then I Saw What the Calling Was Private Life of the Sphinx

From Elegies

Fourth Elegy. The Refugees Eighth Elegy. Children’s Elegy

From Body of Waking

Haying Before Storm King’s Mountain F. O. M. Pouring Milk Away [Untitled] [Untitled] [Untitled]

From Waterlily Fire

To Enter That Rhythm Where the Self Is Lost

From The Speed of Darkness

The Poem as Mask In Our Time The Overthrow of One O’clock at Night Song : Love in Whose Rich Honor Niobe Now Anemone For My Son Poem What They Said The Backside of the Academy The Flying Red Horse Käthe Kollwitz The Speed of Darkness

From Breaking Open

Waking This Morning Waiting for Icarus Despisals Myth Ballad of Orange and Grape Don Baty, the Draft Resister Secrets of American Civilization Wherever Flying to Hanoi

From The Gates

How We Did It Islands Resurrection of the Right Side Poem White Page White Page Poem Before Danger Recovering The Gates

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