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  8 H. F. D.

  3:3: BO reads “the tremor of bone” and CP prints “tremor of bone”.

  All the Little Animals

  First appears in Poetry Review 62.3 (Autumn 1971) as only the first three lines.

  Iris

  First appears in the New Yorker, May 16, 1970, as only the first stanza.

  Ballad of Orange and Grape

  1:3: CP erroneously changes “after you've read” to “after you're read.”

  In the Underworld

  5:1:3: BO does not italicize “are” in “Baby, you are in trouble.” CP adds the italics.

  Flying to Hanoi

  Title: In BO, the title is “Flying There : Hanoi” and CP changes this. Rukeyser indicated this change in NP TS (LC).

  Breaking Open

  8:1:5: BO reads “An old” and CP variantly reads “And old”.

  Rational Man

  1:16: BO reads “with the word of Hanoi” and CP reads “with the world of Hanoi”.

  The Gates (1976)

  Resurrection of the Right Side

  1:6: CP erroneously added a period after the word “rhythms”.

  The Sun-Artist

  4

  1:2: SD reads “yellow of tellows”. CP corrects this to “yellow of yellows”.

  1:9: SD reads “just countered the movement”. CP changes this to “counters”, a change Rukeyser indicated in a TS.

  The Gates

  Prose introduction: CP adds concluding sentence to first paragraph, which G does not have: “He is Kim Chi Ha.”

  10

  6:3: CP erroneously changed “loved” to “love”.

  Juvenilia

  Antigone

  Dated “1926, probably March,” Berg TS, folder 6.

  Cities of the Morning

  Dated “May 4, 1927,” Berg TS, folder 17.

  Autumn in the Garden

  Librarian's note reads “in school magazine? Ca. 1929,” Berg TS, folder 8.

  The Ballad of the Missing Lines

  Dated “November 1930,” Berg TS, folder 9.

  November Sketches

  Sections 1, 3, and 4 of this poem were published in The English Leaflet, XXVII: 239, April 1928, a journal published by the New England Association of Teachers of English in Boston. The poems appeared here after winning second prize in a first annual national contest for high school students. According to William L. Rukeyser, the poet's son, this publication marks the first known instance of Rukeyser and May Sarton being published together (LCII).

  To a Lady Turning Middle-Aged

  Published in Inklings 27 (June 1928): 17. This was a magazine “published five times a year by the students of the Ethical Culture School” (LCII).

  1:22: In Inklings, this line reads “I have but grown nature”. We changed this apparent error so that the line now ends with “mature”.

  Place-Poems: New York

  These nine poems were first printed in the Vassar Review (Feb. 1932): 10–12. Three of the poems (“O City,” “College Special,” and “Empire State Tower”) were reprinted the following year in Poetry 42 (1933):16–17. Of these, “O City” was slightly revised, and “College Special” was renamed from the original “Grand Central—Vassar Special.” We have printed these two as they appeared in Poetry, incorporating Rukeyser's revisions. “Place-Poems: New York” also appear in Poetry East 16–17 (Spring/Summer 1985): 29–43, a special issue focused on Rukeyser.

  For an Aesthete

  Published in The Fieldglass, the Fieldston School yearbook, c. 1930, p. 66.

  Pastorale No. 2

  Published in the Vassar Review (June 1932): 22–23 (LCII). We have been unable to locate a “Pastorale No. 1.”

  A New Poem

  An Unborn Poet

  Published in American Poetry Review, November/December 1979, 8:6, and Poetry East 16–17 (Spring/Summer 1985): 13–16.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Abbott, Berenice. Berenice Abbott Photographs. Foreword by Muriel Rukeyser. New York: Horizon Press, 1970.

  Adkins, Joan F. “The Esthetics of Science: Muriel Rukeyser's ‘Waterlily Fire.’” Contemporary Poetry 1.2 (1973): 23–27.

  Benet, William Rose. “Contemporary Poetry.” Saturday Review 7 Dec. 1935: 46–47.

  Bernikow, Louise, ed. The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America, 1552–1950. New York: Random House, 1974.

  Bourjaily, Vance, ed. Discovery, No. 3. Four Poems by Muriel Rukeyser. New York: Pocket Books, 1954.

  Brock, James. “The Perils of a ‘Poster Girl’: Rukeyser, Partisan Review, and Wake Island.” Herzog and Kaufman 254–63.

  Cherniack, Martin. The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

  Ciardi, John, ed. Mid-Century American Poets. 2nd ed. New York: Twayne, 1952.

  Daniels, Kate. “Muriel Rukeyser and Her Literary Critics.” Dickie and Travisano 247–63.

  ———. “A Note on the Place Poems.” Poetry East 16–17 (Spring/Summer 1985): 27–28.

  ———. “Searching/Not Searching: Writing the Biography of Muriel Rukeyser.” Poetry East 16–17 (Spring/Summer 1985): 70–93.

  Dayton, Tim. Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead. Columbia, MO: U Missouri P, 2003.

  Dickie, Margaret, and Thomas Travisano, eds. Gendered Modernisms. Philadelphia: U Penn P, 1996.

  Eisenberg, Susan. “‘Changing Waters Carry Voices’:‘Nine Poems for the unborn child.’” Herzog and Kaufman 184–92.

  Ekelöf, Gunnar. Selected Poems. Trans. Muriel Rukeyser and Leif Sjöberg. New York: Irvington, 1967.

  Flynn, Richard. “‘The Buried Life and the Body of Waking’: Muriel Rukeyser and the Politics of Literary History.” Dickie and Travisano 264–79.

  Folsom, Merrill. “Sarah Lawrence Again Under Fire.” New York Times 14 Nov. 1958: 11.

  Gabriel, Daniel. Sacco and Vanzetti. Foreword by Muriel Rukeyser. Brooklyn, New York: Gull Books, 1983.

  Goldensohn, Lorrie. “Our Mother Muriel.” Herzog and Kaufman 121–34.

  Hartman, Stephanie. “All Systems Go: Muriel Rukeyser's ‘The Book of the Dead’ and the Reinvention of Modernist Poetics.” Herzog and Kaufman 209–23.

  Herzog, Anne, and Janet Kaufman, eds. “How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?”: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

  Howe, Florence, and Ellen Bass, eds. No More Masks!: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets. Rev. ed. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.

  Kadlec, David. “X-Ray Testimonials in Muriel Rukeyser,” Modernism/Modernity, 5.1 (January 1998): 23–47.

  Kalaidjian, Walter. “Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetics of Specific Critique: Rereading ‘The Book of the Dead,’” Cultural-Critique 20 (Winter 1991–1992): 65–88.

  Kaufman, Janet E. “‘But not the study’: Writing as a Jew.” Herzog and Kaufman 45–61.

  Kearns, Martha. Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1976.

  ———. “Martha Kearns on Muriel Rukeyser and Käthe Kollwitz.” Voices of Women: 3 Critics on 3 Poets on 3 Heroines. Ed. Kearns. New York: Midmarch Associates, 1980.

  Kertesz, Louise. The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.

  Lannoy, Richard. The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society. New York: Oxford UP, 1971, xxv.

  Levertov, Denise. “On Muriel Rukeyser.” Light Up the Cave. By Levertov. New York: New Directions, 1981, 189–95. Rpt. in Herzog and Kaufman 289–93.

  Levi, Jan Heller, ed. A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1994.

  Lowney, John. “Truths of Outrage, Truths of Possibility: Muriel Rukeyser's ‘The Book of the Dead.’” Herzog and Kaufman 195–208.

  Mariani, Gigliola Sacerdoti. “‘Barcelona, 1936’—A Moment of Proof for Muriel Rukeyser,” Revista di Studi Anglo-Americani 6.8 (1990): 387–96.

  McEwen, Christian. “Four Women at the Beginning of Teachers and Writers
Collaborative.” Teachers and Writers 24.4 (Mar.–Apr. 1993): 1–6.

  Melville, Herman. “The Conflict of Convictions.” Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. 1866. 1.38–39. Rpt. in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: A Facsimile Reproduction. Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1960.

  Minot, Leslie Ann. “‘Kodak as You Go’: The Photographic Metaphor in the Work of Muriel Rukeyser.” Herzog and Kaufman 264–76.

  Mort, Jo-Ann. “The Poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.” Jewish Quarterly, 28.4 (Winter 1980–1981): 20–21.

  Nayar, Pramod K. “Trans-formations: Muriel Rukeyser's ‘Ajanta.’” Journal of American Studies 24.1 (Winter 1994): 55–59.

  Nelson, Cary, ed. Anthology of Modern American Poetry. New York: Oxford, 2000.

  Nelson, Cary, and Janet Kaufman. “Muriel Rukeyser.” Heath Anthology of American Literature Instructor's Guide. 24 Dec. 2003. http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/rukeyser.html

  Paz, Octavio. Sun Stone. Trans. Muriel Rukeyser. New York: New Directions, 1963.

  ———. The Early Poems of Octavio Paz, 1935–1955. Trans. Muriel Rukeyser. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1963.

  Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

  Porritt, Ruth. “‘Unforgetting Eyes’: Rukeyser Portraying Kollwitz's Truth.” Herzog and Kaufman 163–83.

  Rexroth, Kenneth. American Poetry in the Twentieth Century. New York: Herder and Herder, 1971.

  Rukeyser, Muriel. Beast in View. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1944.

  ———. Body of Waking. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.

  ———. Breaking Open. New York: Random House, 1973.

  ———. The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.

  ———. “Craft Interview.” The Craft of Poetry. Ed. William Packard. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1974, 153–76.

  ———. “Death in Spain: Barcelona on the Barricades,” New Masses, 1 Sept. 1936, 9–11.

  ———. “The Education of a Poet.” A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Levi 277–85.

  ———. Elegies. New York: New Directions, 1949.

  ———. “The Flown Arrow: The Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.” Housatonic. 1 Aug. 1932. 9–10, 24–26.

  ———. “From Scottsboro to Decatur.” Student Review 2.6 (April 1933):12–15.

  ———. “Gauley Bridge.” Films: A Quarterly Discussion and Analysis 1.3 (Summer 1940): 51–64. Rukeyser's filmscript treatment of the Hawk's Nest tragedy.

  ———. The Gates. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

  ———. The Green Wave. New York: Doubleday, 1948.

  ———. Houdini: A Musical. Ed. Jan Freeman. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2002.

  ———. Houdini: A Play by Muriel Rukeyser. Ed. Richard Jones and Kate Daniels. Poetry East 16–17 (Spring/Summer 1985): 96–220.

  ———. Interview by Dr. Harry T. Moore. Talks with Authors. Ed. Charles F. Madden. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1968, 125–50.

  ———. Introduction. An American Portrait 1776–1976. Ed. Alex J. Rosenberg. New York: Transworld Art Corporation, 1975.

  ———. Just Before the Gates. Poems read by the author. Audiocasette. Watershed Recording, #c-105. Recorded at the Textile Museum, Washington DC, Jan. 1975.

  ———. The Life of Poetry. 1949. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 1996.

  ———. Mediterranean. New York: Writers and Artists Committee, Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1938.

  ———. “The Music of Translation.” The World of Translation. New York: P.E.N. American Center, 1970, 187–93.

  ———. “New Letters on the Air.” Introduced and produced by Dennis Bernstein. Kansas City, MO. 7 Jan. 1983. Selections from Muriel Rukeyser reading at the 92nd Street YM/YWHA, recorded by Jeffrey Norton Publisher.

  ———. “Notes for a Preface.” Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Rukeyser archives, Part II.

  ———. One Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

  ———. The Orgy. 1965. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 1997.

  ———. Orpheus. With drawing by Picasso. San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1949.

  ———. The Outer Banks (chapbook). Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press Inc., 1965.

  ———. Out of Silence: Selected Poems. Ed. Kate Daniels. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly, 1992.

  ———. Selected Poems. New York: New Directions, 1951.

  ———. Selected Poems. Ed. Adrienne Rich. Library of America, 2004.

  ———. “A Simple Theme.” Review of Charlotte Marletto's Jewel of Our Longing. Poetry 74 (1949): 236–39.

  ———. “Sixth Elegy.” Twice a Year 5.6 (Fall–Winter 1940/Spring–Summer 1941). New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1967, 323–26.

  ———. The Soul and Body of John Brown. With etchings by Rudolf C. von Ripper. New York: Lee Ault and R. C. von Ripper, 1940.

  ———. The Speed of Darkness. New York: Random House, 1968

  ———. Theory of Flight. New Haven: Yale UP, 1935.

  ———. “To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century.” Gates of Prayer. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1975, 706. Rpt. in The Service of the Heart. London: Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, 1967.

  ———. The Traces of Thomas Hariot. New York: Random House, 1971.

  ———. A Turning Wind. New York: Viking Press, 1939.

  ———. 29 Poems. Great Britain: Rapp & Whiting/André Deutsch, 1972.

  ———. U.S. 1. New York: Covici Friede, 1938.

  ———. Wake Island. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1942.

  ———. Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935–1962. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

  ———. Willard Gibbs. Woodbridge, CT: Oxbow Press, 1988.

  Schweik, Susan. “The Letter and the Body: Muriel Rukeyser's ‘Letter to the Front.’” A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991, 140–70.

  Shulman, Robert. The Power of Political Art: The 1930's Literary Left Reconsidered. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 2000.

  Spoken Arts Treasury: 100 Modern Poets. Audiocassette. Vol. 11. Rukeyser reads her own poems. Rec. 1969. New Rochelle, New York: Spoken Arts, 1985.

  They Are Their Own Gifts. Film. Dir. Lucille Rhodes and Margaret Murphy. Distr. Women Make Movies, 1978.

  Thurston, Michael. “Documentary Modernism as Popular Front Poetics: Muriel Rukeyser's ‘Book of the Dead.’” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 60.1 (March 1999): 59–83.

  ———. Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry Between the World Wars. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 2001.

  Tierney, Kevin. Darrow: A Biography. New York: Crowell, 1979.

  True, Michael. “The Authentic Voice.” Herzog and Kaufman 91–99.

  ———. An Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse UP, 1995.

  “Under Forty: A Symposium on American Literature and the Younger Generation of American Jews.” Contemporary Jewish Record (February 1944): 4–9.

  Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

  Ware, Michelle S. “Opening ‘The Gates’: Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetry of Witness.” Women's Studies 22 (1993): 297–308.

  “We Came for the Games,” Esquire 82 (Oct. 1974): 192–94, 368–70.

  Wechsler, Shoshana. “A Ma(t)ter of Fact and Vision: The Objectivity Question and ‘The Book of the Dead.’” Herzog and Kaufman 226–40.

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  INDEX OF TITLES

  Subtitles appear in italics and are listed twice; once alphabetically as main entries and once indented under the main title in sequence. First lines (in quotation marks) appear when a poem or subtitle is unnnamed. Alphabetical order disregards initial articles in titles and subtitles.

  Absalom, 83
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  Adventures, Midnight, 126

  After Melville, 500

  After Their Quarrel, 338

  Afterwards, 507

  Air, 423

  “Air fills with fear and the kinds of fear”, 565

  Ajanta, 207

  The Journey, 207

  The Cave, 208

  Les Tendresses Bestiales, 209

  Black Blood, 210

  The Broken World, 210

  Akiba, 454

  The Way Out, 454

  for The Song of Songs, 455

  The Bonds, 457

  Akiba Martyr, 458

  The Witness, 459

  Akiba Martyr, 458

  “All day the rain”, 568

  All Souls, 236

  All the Little Animals, 489

  Alloy, 95

  Along History, 488

  “Among all the waste there are the intense stories”, 244

  Among Roses, 420

  “Among the days”, 563

  Anemone, 428

  Ann Burlak, 191

  Antigone, 573

  Are You Born?—I, 379

  Are You Born?—II, 399

  Arthur Peyton, 94

  Artifact, 540

  The Artist as Social Critic, 484

  Asleep and Awake, 349

  Asylum Song, 174

  “At daybreak go looking for your newborn name”, 360

  Autumn in the Garden, 574

  The Baby on the Mountain—Stroking Song, 519

  Back Tooth, 555

  The Backside of the Academy, 445

  Ballad of Orange and Grape, 492

  The Ballad of the Missing Lines, 575

  A Ballad Theme, 348

  Beast in View, 238

  Before Danger, 551

  Being Born, 520

  Believing in Those Inexorable Laws, 421

  The Bill, 104

  The Bird, 268

  A Birth, 334

  The Birth of Venus, 356

  The Birthday, 131

  Black Blood, 210

  The Black Ones, the Great Ones, 516

  The Blood Is Justified, 68

  The Blue Flower, 440

  Blue Spruce, 539

  Body of Waking, 390

  The Bonds, 457

  The Book of the Dead, 106

  Born in December, 354

  Boy with His Hair Cut Short, 119

  Boys in the Branches, 541

  Boys of These Men Full Speed, 488

  Breaking Open, 521

 

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