Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Muriel Rukeyser
Standard Name: Rukeyser, Muriel
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Alice Walker | AW
's first book, Once: Poems (containing thirty pieces), was published through the agency of Muriel Rukeyser
and Monica McCall
. It was dedicated to Howard Zinn
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 125-7 |
Instructor | Alice Walker | At Sarah Lawrence, she wrote later, everyody understood that writing was about your heart and your soul and . . nobody cared about what you wore or if your hair was done the right way.... |
Friends, Associates | Alice Walker | Her nurturing friendship with Muriel Rukeyser
never recovered from her ceasing to deal with Rukeyser's intimate Monica McCall
as her agent. Rukeyser wrote her a letter of reproach in May 1975; Walker wrote back at... |
Textual Production | Alice Walker | AW
said she felt at the time that she was fighting for her own life. She wrote the story with tears pouring down my cheeks. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 119 |
Textual Production | Alice Walker | The student AWstuffed her poems under Muriel Rukeyser
's door. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Literary responses | Alice Walker | Of this collection Poetry magazine asserted: Feeling is channeled into a style that is direct and sharp, honest speech pared down to essentials. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 167 |
Publishing | Alice Walker | After this novel AW
changed her literary agent from Monica McCall
(who had launched her career but who she felt was too formal to communicate with her without stress) to Wendy Weil
. This move... |
Dedications | Alice Walker | She dedicated the book to Jane Cooper
, Muriel Rukeyser
, a friend lost track of named Eileen, and in loving memory of Zora Neale Hurston
, Nella Larsen
, and Jean Toomer
, the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Walker | In the poem PaganAW
describes leaving a book by Muriel Rukeyser—overdue at the library—/ face up, promiscuous / out in the sun. This, it seems, is an act of pagan religion, an act... |
Textual Production | Alice Walker | This book is dedicated to the memory of the judicially murdered Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
, in solidarity with the peoples of Cuba and Tibet and for Mumia
and Mu. The former activist Mumia Abu-Jamal... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | Here AR
studies various global and national issues of the past and present, such as the Persian Gulf War, poverty, and the struggles of homosexuals, and Jewish-, African-, and Irish-Americans. Florence Howe
has judged that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | AR
writes here on June Jordan
, Audre Lorde
, Muriel Rukeyser
, and Wallace Stevens
, among others. She reiterates her passionate belief in the links between poetic, personal, and social consciousness and activity:... |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | Other friends who not of this group but who were important to CMC
included several distinguished writers: Eudora Welty
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Tennessee Williams
, Elizabeth Ames
(director of the writers' community at... |
Education | Mary McCarthy | A year later, in 1926 MMC
enrolled at |
politics | Denise Levertov | Focussing her political activity on military, nuclear, and environmental issues, DL
was not a feminist. She claimed never to have made an aesthetic decision based on my gender.Kate Daniels
has charged her with myopia... |
Timeline
1974: Louise Bernikow published in the USA her...
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1974
Louise Bernikow
published in the USA her groundbreaking anthologyThe World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America, 1552-1950.
12 February 1980: US poet Muriel Rukeyser died in Greenwich...
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12 February 1980
US poet Muriel Rukeyser
died in Greenwich Village, New York, two years after publishing her Collected Poems and four years after her last new collection, The Gates, 1976.
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