In a message dated 5/7/00 11:47:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< 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.
>>
Joe,
As I recall, during the 80's it was hard to come by an in-print collection
of her poetry. A Selected Poems (issued in the mid 90s, TriQuarterly?)
edited by Kate Daniels, and then the more recent books you mention,
pushed her work to the fore and allowed her poetry to get back the attention
it deserved, and should never have lost. (Although I have often agreed with
Randall Jarrell's reviews and essays, his dismissive reviews of her poetry
couldn't have helped the situation either.) Besides the political/feminist
edge
to her work, or perhaps in conjunction to it, she did much to open poetry
by writing frankly about sex.
Finnegan
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