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MURIEL RUKEYSER

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Poems found: 583

AKIBA

ALONG HISTORY

BREAKING OPEN

BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING

CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES

CITATION FOR HORACE GREGORY

ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES

ENDLESS

FIGHTING FOR ROSES

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 1

LONG PAST MONCADA

LOOKING AT EACH OTHER

MEDITERRANEAN: 1

MEDITERRANEAN: 2

MEDITERRANEAN: 3

MEDITERRANEAN: 4

MEDITERRANEAN: 5

MEDITERRANEAN: 6

MENDINGS

NERUDA, THE WINE

PAPER ANNIVERSARY

RECOVERING

RONDEL

ST. ROACH

THE BIRTH OF VENUS

THE KEY

THE POWER OF SUICIDE

TO BE A JEW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

THE SPEAKING TREE

THEN

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLANE

THIS MORNING

WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN

M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY

AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE

AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES

AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD

AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD

BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE

BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT

DESPISALS

EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE

FOR MY SON

HOMAGE TO LITERATURE

KATHE KOLLWITZ

MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN

MYTH

NIGHT FEEDING

PAINTERS

POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD

READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS

THE OUTER BANKS

THE SPEED OF DARKNESS

THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 2

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 10

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 3

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 5

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 6

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 7

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 8

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9

HOW WE DID IT

THE CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM

THE POEM AS MASK

WAITING FOR ICARUS

ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS

DESDICHADA

A BIRTH

THE RETURN

UNBORN SONG

PHANERON

ASLEEP AND AWAKE

THE PLACE AT ALERT BAY

A CERTAIN MUJSIC

A CHARM FOR CANTIFLAS

A LEG IN A PLASTER CAST

ADVENTURE AT MIDNIGHT

AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER

BREATHING LANDSCAPE

CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER

O CITY

COLLEGE SPECIAL

EMPIRE STATE TOWER

DELTA POEMS

FOGHORN IN HORROR

FULL MOON

WALTZ

HERO SPEECH

KING'S MOUNTAIN

MOTHER GARDENS' ROUND

MOTIVE

MRS. WALPURGA

NIGHT-MUSIC

PIECES OF ORPHEUS

POEM

SAND-QUARRY

SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN

SEA MERCY

SONG

THE SUROUNDED

STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY

SUICIDE BLUES

THE CHILD ASLEEP

THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD

THE CHILDREN'S ELEGY

TIME EXPOSURES

THE SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN

WATERLILY FIRE

MURMURS FROM THE EARTH OF THIS LAND

GIBBS

IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US

ISLANDS

METAPHOR TO ACTION

NOTES FOR A POEM

ONE SOLDIER

PLACE-RITUALS

SONNET

THE OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD

WAKE ISLAND

WATER NIGHT

WOODEN SPRING

SEARCHING/NOT SEARCHING

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: WEST VIRGINIA

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: STATEMENT: PHILLIPA ALLEN

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE FACE OF THE DAM: VIVIAN JONES

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ALLOY

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: THE AFTER-EFFECTS

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

1/26/39

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 4. SESTINA

WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN

DEEP IN THE CENTURY OF OPPOSITES

DOWN FROM CHICAGO BRYAN CAME

DREAMING WE WERE AWAKE, WE HEARD THE RIVERS

DURING THE JOURNEY THERE COME MOMENTS OF WAKING

IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US

KNOWLEDGE MY NAKEDNESS

M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

NEVERTHELESS THE MOON

POEM WHITE PAGE WHITE PAGE POEM

THIS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT SMOKE

TO ENTER THAT RHYTHM WHERE THE SELF IS LOST

TO KEEP THE WEAKNESS SECRET

WAKING THIS MORNING

WHEREVER

1/26/1939

BALLAD THEME

BIRTH

CERTAIN MUSIC

CHARM FOR CANTINFLAS

GAME OF BALL

GAME OF DARTS AT THE CHESTERFIELD ARMS

LITTLE STONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, IN FLORIDA

LOUIS SONNET

SIMPLE EXPERIMENT

STORY

AFTER MELVILLE

AFTER THEIR QUARREL

AFTERWARDS

AIR

AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY

AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE

AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESS BESTIALES

AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES

AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD

AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD

AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD

AKIBA

AKIBA: AKIBA MARTYR

AKIBA: FOR THE SONG OF SONGS

AKIBA: THE BONDS

AKIBA: THE WAY OUT

AKIBA: THE WAY OUT

AKIBA: THE WITNESSR

ALL SOULS

ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS

ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE FOREST

ALONG HISTORY

AMONG GRASS

ANEMONE

ANOTHER DAY. A GAME OF TOYS. PAUL, TELLING THE GAME:

ANOTHER DAY. FOR A MOMENT SLIPPPING BACK, AGAIN UNREAL KING

ANOTHER DAY. IN A FIELD OF PEACE THE CHILD, PLAYING

ANOTHER DAY. PAUL IN THE MOUNTAINS OF FANTASY.

ANOTHER DAY. THE CHILDREN ARE ALL EATING

ARE YOU BORN? 1

ARE YOU BORN? 2

ARTIFACT

ASLEEP AND AWAKE

ASYLUM SONG

BACK TOOTH

BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE

BEAST IN VIEW

BEER AND BACON

BLUE SPRUCE

BORN IN DECEMBER

BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT

BOYS IN THE BRANCHES

BOYS OF THESE MEN FULL SPEED

BREAKING OPEN

BREAKING THE NETS OF THE WORLD

BREATHING LANDSCAPE

BRINGING

BUBBLE OF AIR

BUBBLE OF AIR

BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING

BURLESQUE

BURNING BUSH

BURNISHING, OAKLAND

CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES

CAMPAIGN: THE YOUNG MEN

CANAL

CANNIBAL BRATUSCHA

CATS AND A COCK

CHAPULTEPEC PARK: 1

CHAPULTEPEC PARK: 2

CHARLES IVES, SELS.

CHILD AND MOTHER

CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD

CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER

CHRISTMAS EVE

CITATION FOR HORACE GREGORY

CITY OF MONUMENTS (WASHINGTON 1934)

CLOUDS, AIRS, CARRIED ME AWAY

CLUES

COLLEGE RADICALS

CONEY ISLAND

CORRESPONDENCES: CORRESPONDENCES

CORRESPONDENCES: DEMOCRITUS LAUGHED

CORRESPONDENCES: TREE OF DAYS

COURSE

CRAYON HOUSE

CRIES FROM CHIAPAS

DARKNESS MUSIC

DELTA POEMS

DESDICHADA

DESPISALS

DESTRUCTION OF GRIEF

DIVINING WATER

DON BATY, THE DRAFT RESISTER

DOUBLE DIALOGUE: HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST

DOUBLE ODE

DREAM-DRUMMING

DRIVEWAY

DRUNKEN GIRL

DRUNKEN GIRL: SONG

EASTER EVE, 1945.

ECCENTRIC MOTION

EEL

EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE

EIGHTH ELEGY: CHILDREN'S ELEGY

ELEGIES: FIFTH ELEGY: A TURNING WIND

ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES

ELEGIES: SECOND ELEGY: AGE OF MAGICIANS

ELEGIES: THIRD ELEGY: THE FEAR OF FORM

ENDLESS

EVENING PLAZA, SAN MIGUEL

EXILE OF MUSIC

EYES OF NIGHT-TIME

F. O. M. (THE DEATH OF MATTHIESSEN)

FABLE

FACING SENTENCING

FIGHTING FOR ROSES

FLYING TO HANOI

FOGHORN IN HORROR

FOR A MEXICAN PAINTER

FOR FUN

FOR KAY BOYLE

FOR MY SON

FOR MY SON

FORERUNNERS

FORMOSA

FOUR IN A FAMILY

FROM A PLAY : PUBLISHER'S SONG

FROM LETTER TO THE FRONT

FROM THE DUCK-POND TO THE CAROUSEL

GIFT

GIFT-POEM (1)

GIFT-POEM (2)

GIRL AT THE PLAY

GOLD LEAF

GRADUS AD PARNASSUM

GRAND CENTRAL STATION

GREEN LIMITS

HAYING BEFORE STORM

HE HAD A QUALITY OF GROWTH

HERO SPEECH

HIS HEAD IS FULL OF FACES

HOLY FAMILY

HOMAGE TO LITERATURE

HOW WE DID IT

I MAKE MY MAGIC

IN A DARK HOUSE

IN HADES, ORPHEUS

IN HER BURNING

IN OUR TIME

IN THE UNDERWORLD

IRIS

ISLANDS

IT IS THERE

JOHN GRUMLIE

JUDITH

JUNK-HEAP AT MURANO

KATHE KOLLWITZ

KING'S MOUNTAIN

LANDSCAPE WITH WAVE APPROACHING

LAT. 10 NORTH, LONG. 45 WEST

LEG IN A PLASTER CAST

LETTER TO THE FRONT

LETTER, UNPOSTED

LIVES: ANN BURLAK

LIVES: CHAPMAN

LIVES: GIBBS

LIVES: IVES

LIVES: RYDER

LIVES: THE RISEN IMAGE SHINES

LONG ENOUGH

LONG PAST MONCADA

LOOKING

LOOKING AT EACH OTHER

LOVE AND ITS DOORS AND WINDOWS

LOVER AS FOX

MADBOY'S SONG

MAKE AND BE EATEN

MARTIN LUTHER KING, MALCOLM X

MARY SLEETH

MEDITERRANEAN: 1

MEDITERRANEAN: 2

MEDITERRANEAN: 3

MEDITERRANEAN: 4

MEDITERRANEAN: 5

MEDITERRANEAN: 7

MENDINGS

METAPHOR TO ACTION

MORE CLUES

MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN

MORTAL GIRL

MOTHER GARDEN'S ROUND

MOUNTAIN: ONE FROM BRYANT

MOVIE

MRS. WALPURGA

MS. LOT

MYTH

MYTH

NERUDA, THE WINE

NERUDA, THE WINE

NIGHT FEEDING

NIGHT-MUSIC

NIGHT-MUSIC

NINE POEMS (FOR THE UNBORN CHILD)

NINTH ELEGY: THE ANTAGONISTS

NIOBE NOW

NOGUCHI

NOT TO BE PRINTED, NOT TO BE SAID, NOT TO BE THOUGHT

NOT YET

NOTES FOR A POEM

NUNS IN THE WIND

OF MONEY AND THE PAST

ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER

ONE MONTH

ORGY

ORPHEUS

OTHERWORLD. LANDING AT LIVERPOOL

OTHERWORLD: OTHERWORLD

OTHERWORLD: THE ISLAND

OUTPOST

PAINTERS

PALOS VERDES CLIFFS

PANACEA

PAPER ANNIVERSARY

PARALLEL INVENTION

PHANERON

PLACE-RITUALS

POEM

POEM

POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD

PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A BACKGROUND OF HOLDINGS

POURING MILK AWAY

PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SPHINX

READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS

RECOVERING

RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHT SIDE

RINGLING

RITE

ROCK FLOW, RIVER MIX

RONDEL

RUNE

SACRED LAKE

SALAMANDER

SAND-QUARRY WITH MOVING FIGURES

SEA MERCY

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 1

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 10. THE PRESIDENT AND LASER BOMB

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 11. NOT SEARCHING

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 12. THE QUESTION

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 13

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 14

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 2: MIRIAM. THE RED SEA

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 3. FOR DOLCI

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 4. CONCRETE

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 5. BRECHT'S GALILEO

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 6. READING THE KIEU

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 7. THE FLOOR OF OCEAN. SISTINE CH

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 8. H.F.D.

SEARCHING / NOT SEARCHING: 9. THE ARTIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC

SECRETS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

SEGRE SONG

SEVENTH AVENUE

SEVENTH ELEGY: DREAM-SINGING ELEGY

SHOOTING GALLERY

SILENCE OF VOLCANOES

SIXTH ELEGY: RIVER ELEGY

SLOW DEATH OF THE DRAGON

SLOW DIALOGUE BETWEEN PAIN AND ROOSEVELT

SONG

SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN

SONG FROM 'MR. AMAZEEN ON THE RIVER'

SONG FROM PUCK FAIR

SONG OF ANOTHER TRIBE

SONG, THE BRAIN-CORAL

SONG: LOVE IN WHOSE RICH HONOR

SONG: LYING IN DAYLIGHT

SONG: REMEMBERING MOVIES

SONG: THE STAR IN THE NETS OF HEAVEN

SONNET

SPEECH FOR THE ASSISTANT, FROM HOUDINI

SPEED, WE SAY

SPIRALS AND FUGUES

ST. ROACH

STATEMENT BY WILLKIE AFTER RETURNING FROM ENGLAND

STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY

SUBMIT YOUR OWN ANSWER

SUICIDE BLUES

SUITE FOR LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER

SUMMER, THE SACRAMENTO

SUNDAYS, THEY SLEEP LATE

TENTH ELEGY: ELEGY IN JOY

BACKSIDE OF THE ACADEMY

BIRTH OF VENUS

BLOOD IS JUSTIFIED (1)

BLOOD IS JUSTIFIED (2)

BLUE FLOWER

BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM

BOOK OF THE DEAD: ALLOY

BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON

BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE

BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES

BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY

BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP

BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER

BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE

BOOK OF THE DEAD: STATEMENT: PHILIPPA ALLEN

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: AFTER-EFFECTS

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE FACE OF THE DAM: VIVIAN JONES

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD

BOOK OF THE DEAD: WEST VIRGINIA

CHILDREN'S ORCHARD

CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM

DOCTORS, SELECTIONS

DROWNING YOUNG MAN

FLYING RED HORSE

GATES

HANDCLAP

IRIS-EATERS

JETTY. DOVER

KEY

LOAN

LOST ROMANS

MEETING

MIDDLE OF THE AIR: SPEECH OF THE MOTHER (ACT I, SC. 4)

MINOTAUR

MOTIVE OF ALL OF IT

OUTER BANKS

OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT

PLACE AT ALERT BAY

POWER OF SUICIDE

QUESTION

RETURN

ROTTEN LAKE ELEGY

RUNNING OF THE GRUNION

SEEMING

SHORTEST WAY HOME

SIX CANONS

SIXTH NIGHT: WAKING

SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN

SPEAKING TREE

SPEED OF DARKNESS

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 1

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 10

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 11

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 12

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 13

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 2

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 3

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 4

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 5

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 6

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 7

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 8

SPEED OF DARKNESS: 9

SUN-ARTIST

SURROUNDED

TRANSGRESS

TWO ILLUMINATIONS

VICTIMS, A PLAY FOR THE HOME

WARDS. ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, HYDE PARK CORNER

WATCHER

WRITER

YOUNG GIRL OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

THEN

THEN I SAW WHAT THE CALLING WAS

THEORY OF FLIGHT: NIGHT FLIGHT: NEW YORK

THEORY OF FLIGHT: PREAMBLE

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE GYROSCOPE

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE LYNCHINGS OF JESUS

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLANE

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE TUNNEL

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THEORY OF FLIGHT

THIS HOUSE, THIS COUNTRY

THIS MORNING

THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS

THOUSANDS OF DAYS

THREE BLACK WOMEN

THREE SIDES OF A COIN

TIME HINDER NOT ME; HIS ARMS REACH HERE AND THERE

TRADITIONAL TUNE

TRADITIONAL TUNE

TREE

TRINITY CHURCHYARD (FOR MY MOTHER & HER ANCESTOR, AKIBA)

TROPHIES

TWO VOYAGES: MEDITERRANEAN

TWO VOYAGES: THE CRUISE

TWO YEARS

UNBORN SONG

VOICES

VOICES OF WAKING

WAITING FOR ICARUS

WATER NIGHT

WATERLILY FIRE (FOR RICHARD GRIFFITH)

WEDDING PRESENTS

WELCOME FROM WAR

WHAT DO I GIVE YOU

WHAT DO WE SEE?

WHAT HAVE YOU BROUGHT HOME FROM THE WARS

WHAT I SEE

WHAT THE KING SAID

WHAT THEY SAID

WHEN HE BEGAN TO WITNESS

WHO IN ONE LIFETIME

WILLKIE -- STOPLESS FALLING THROUGH AIR

WILLKIE IN THE GULLIVER

WILLKIE: WORDS FROM RUSSIA

WIND ARROW, WIND ROSE

WOMAN AND EMBLEMS

WOMAN AS MARKET

WOODEN SPRING

WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN

WORK, FOR THE DAY IS COMING

WREATH OF WOMEN

YES



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