Rukeyser may have been eclipsed for a while by the lingering effects of New
Critical & anti-Communist doctrines, but she maintains a pretty high profile in
the US these days, with new editions of the _Collected Poems_ and _The Life of
Poetry_ from Paris Press.
Both Dom & Alison have used the word "argument" to characterize this thread--am
I missing something? This series of posts has neither sense of the word, either
"disagreement" nor "structured presentation of an idea."
jd
"David E. Latane" wrote:
> Obviously in the Utopia World Anthology of Committed Individuals, Rukeyser
> would be included. It might even be a fun game to compile such, taking
> Silkin's title.
>
> In the anthology Silkin put together from Stand contributors (that's right
> isn't it?) in 1973 and published with Gollancz, she wasn't there.
> It's a rare book and must have had a small press run.
>
> Interestingly enough, Rukeyser and Silkin have a lot in common. Both born
> in their respective metropolises to upwardly mobile Jewish families, both
> strongly left in politics, etc. Rukeyser was less rebellious though, doing
> the Vassar thing. And I wouldn't say she was ever erased.
>
> David Latane
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, A.J. Croggon wrote:
>
> > In this kind of argument, I can't but think of Muriel Rukeyser, surely the
> > epitome of a committed poet. Was she in this anthology? In her case, her
> > sex was not helped by her communism, and her reputation underwent a big
> > decline after she was targeted by McCarthy. Was she more readily erased
> > because she was a woman?
> >
> >
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