 |
 |
I knew Rukeyser the last few years of her life and had her read at various events I organized. She had a very devoted following, part of which was young women who had become interested in feminism and young women poets who saw her as a role model, but it also included a sizeable group of more established poets of all genders. If she appeared invisible it may have been because her visibility was almost completely in the for-want-of-a-better-term (and I don't want to get into _that_ again) avant-garde. At 10:38 AM 5/7/00 -0400, you wrote: >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. > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%