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.
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
119
Muriel Rukeyser
sent it to Hughes, who proved victorious...
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, 1990.
She was in Rukeyser's class at the time, and this bold approach to an admired and established poet paid off. Rukeyser passed the poems...
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...
Travel
Denise Levertov
DL
went on a week-long peace mission to Hanoi with Muriel Rukeyser
and Jane Hart
(the wife of a US Senator).
Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press, 2004.
