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American Poets Project
Muriel Rukeyser Adrienne Rich
 

Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems

edited by adrienne rich

 
Overview
About the Editor
Table of Contents

Above: Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich

 

from Theory of Flight (1935)

  • Poem Out of Childhood
  • Effort at Speech Between Two People
  • Notes for a Poem
  • Sand-Quarry with Moving Figures
  • Three Sides of a Coin
  • This House, This Country
  • The Structure of the Plane
  • Study in a Late Subway
from U.S. 1 (1938)
  • from The Book of the Dead
    • The Road
    • Statement: Philippa Allen
    • Gauley Bridge
    • The Disease
    • The Cornfield
    • The Dam
    • The Book of the Dead
  • Girl at the Play
  • Homage to Literature
  • More of a Corpse Than a Woman
  • Woman and Emblems
from A Turning Wind (1939)
  • First Elegy. Rotten Lake
  • Third Elegy. The Fear of Form
  • Fifth Elegy. A Turning Wind
  • Reading Time     :     1 Minute 26 Seconds
  • Tree of Days
  • Paper Anniversary
  • From the Duck-Pond to the Carousel
  • Judith
  • from Lives
    • Gibbs
    • Ann Burlak
from Beast in View (1944)
  • Ajanta
  • Child in the Great Wood
  • Darkness Music
  • Drunken Girl
  • The Minotaur
  • Gift-Poem
  • Leg in a Plaster Cast
  • Bubble of Air
  • from Letter to the Front
    • I. "Women and poets see the truth arrive"
    • IV. Sestina
    • VII. "To be a Jew in the twentieth century"
    • IX. "Among all the waste ..."
from The Green Wave (1948)
  • Eyes of Night-Time
  • Salamander
  • Green Limits
  • Foghorn in Horror
  • Then I Saw What the Calling Was
  • from Nine Poems for the Unborn Child
    • II. "They came to me and said ..."
    • VII. "You will enter the world ..."
from Body of Waking (1958)
  • F.O.M.
  • "Long Enough"
  • Pouring Milk Away
  • The Sixth Night     :     Waking
from Waterlily Fire (1962)
  • Waterlily Fire
from The Speed of Darkness (1968)
  • The Poem as Mask: Orpheus
  • The Conjugation of the Paramecium
  • Double Dialogue
  • Orgy
  • What I See
  • Gift
  • Cries from Chiapas
  • For My Son
  • Poem
  • The Power of Suicide
  • Bunk Johnson Blowing
  • What They Said
  • The Backside of the Academy
  • The Outer Banks
  • Käthe Kollwitz
from Breaking Open (1973)
  • Despisals
  • Looking at Each Other
  • Waiting for Icarus
  • In Her Burning
  • Myth
  • A Simple Experiment
  • Ballad of Orange and Grape
  • From a Play: Publisher's Song
from The Gates (1976)
  • St. Roach
  • Painters
  • Ms. Lot
  • Resurrection of the Right Side
  • The Wards
  • Destruction of Grief
  • Burnishing, Oakland

Biographical Note
Note on the Texts
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines

 
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