Elegies
Muriel Rukeyser author Christoph Keller editor Jan Heller Levi editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published:22nd Oct '13
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"Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest." — Muriel Rukeyser, “Elegy in Joy”
First published by New Directions in 1949, Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies were written over a seven years period the end of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the beginnings of the Cold War. Both and homage to Rilke’s Duino Elegies and a spiritual reckoning that is particularly resonant today, these poems present no angelic orders, only the difficulties of living in the modern world, the depths of shipwreck, and “Love that gives us ourselves, in the world known to all.”
"Rukeyser appears more and more as an exemplary American modernist, the lyric poet of epic awareness." -- Washington Post
"The breadth, innovation, variety, and daring of Muriel Rukeyser’s work have always defied efforts to confine her. Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States in its range of reference, its generosity of vision, and its energy." -- Adrienne Rich
ISBN: 9780811221061
Dimensions: 203mm x 132mm x 8mm
Weight: 107g
64 pages