Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Poet, Author, Activist

A partial list of works by Muriel Rukeyser:

Books of Poetry:

Theory of Flight (1935)
U.S. 1 (1938)
A Turning Wind (1939)
Wake Island (1942)
Beast In View (1944)
The Green Wave (1948)
Elegies (1949)
Orpheus (1949) Selected Poems (1951)
Body of Waking (1958)
Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962 (1962)
The Outer Banks (1967)
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
29 Poems (1972)
Breaking Open (1973)
The Gates (1976)
The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser (1978)

Prose

Willard Gibbs (1942)
The Life of Poetry (1949)
One Life (poetry and prose) (1957)
The Orgy (1965)
The Traces of Thomas Hariot (1971)

Plays

The Middle of the Air (1945)
The Colors of the Day (in celebration of the Vassar Centennial) (1961)
Houdini (1973)

Translations

Octavio Paz: Selected Poems and Sunstone (1963)
Gunnar Ekelöf: Selected Poems (with Leif Sjöberg) (1967)

Children's Books

Come Back, Paul (1955)
I Go Out (1961)
Bubbles (1967)
Mazes (1970)
Uncle Eddie's Moustache (Poems for children by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Muriel Rukeyser) (1974)

Screenplays

All the Way Home (documentary filmscript) (1958)

Born December 15, 1913, died February 12, 1980. Lived mostly in New York City.