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MURIEL RUKEYSER

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Poems found: 583

1/26/1939

1/26/39

A BIRTH

A CERTAIN MUJSIC

A CHARM FOR CANTIFLAS

A LEG IN A PLASTER CAST

ADVENTURE AT MIDNIGHT

AFTER MELVILLE

AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER

AFTER THEIR QUARREL

AFTERWARDS

AIR

AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY

AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY

AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE

AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE

AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESS BESTIALES

AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES

AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES

AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD

AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD

AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD

AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD

AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD

AKIBA

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 LITTLE ANIMALS

ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE FOREST

ALONG HISTORY

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

ASLEEP AND AWAKE

ASYLUM SONG

BACK TOOTH

BACKSIDE OF THE ACADEMY

BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE

BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE

BALLAD THEME

BEAST IN VIEW

BEER AND BACON

BIRTH

BIRTH OF VENUS

BLOOD IS JUSTIFIED (1)

BLOOD IS JUSTIFIED (2)

BLUE FLOWER

BLUE SPRUCE

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

BORN IN DECEMBER

BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT

BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT

BOYS IN THE BRANCHES

BOYS OF THESE MEN FULL SPEED

BREAKING OPEN

BREAKING OPEN

BREAKING THE NETS OF THE WORLD

BREATHING LANDSCAPE

BREATHING LANDSCAPE

BRINGING

BUBBLE OF AIR

BUBBLE OF AIR

BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING

BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING

BURLESQUE

BURNING BUSH

BURNISHING, OAKLAND

CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES

CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES

CAMPAIGN: THE YOUNG MEN

CANAL

CANNIBAL BRATUSCHA

CATS AND A COCK

CERTAIN MUSIC

CHAPULTEPEC PARK: 1

CHAPULTEPEC PARK: 2

CHARLES IVES, SELS.

CHARM FOR CANTINFLAS

CHILD AND MOTHER

CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD

CHILDREN'S ORCHARD

CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER

CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER

CHRISTMAS EVE

CITATION FOR HORACE GREGORY

CITATION FOR HORACE GREGORY

CITY OF MONUMENTS (WASHINGTON 1934)

CLOUDS, AIRS, CARRIED ME AWAY

CLUES

COLLEGE RADICALS

COLLEGE SPECIAL

CONEY ISLAND

CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM

CORRESPONDENCES: CORRESPONDENCES

CORRESPONDENCES: DEMOCRITUS LAUGHED

CORRESPONDENCES: TREE OF DAYS

COURSE

CRAYON HOUSE

CRIES FROM CHIAPAS

DARKNESS MUSIC

DEEP IN THE CENTURY OF OPPOSITES

DELTA POEMS

DELTA POEMS

DESDICHADA

DESDICHADA

DESPISALS

DESPISALS

DESTRUCTION OF GRIEF

DIVINING WATER

DOCTORS, SELECTIONS

DON BATY, THE DRAFT RESISTER

DOUBLE DIALOGUE: HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST

DOUBLE ODE

DOWN FROM CHICAGO BRYAN CAME

DREAM-DRUMMING

DREAMING WE WERE AWAKE, WE HEARD THE RIVERS

DRIVEWAY

DROWNING YOUNG MAN

DRUNKEN GIRL

DRUNKEN GIRL: SONG

DURING THE JOURNEY THERE COME MOMENTS OF WAKING

EASTER EVE, 1945.

ECCENTRIC MOTION

EEL

EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE

EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE

EIGHTH ELEGY: CHILDREN'S ELEGY

ELEGIES: FIFTH ELEGY: A TURNING WIND

ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES

ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES

ELEGIES: SECOND ELEGY: AGE OF MAGICIANS

ELEGIES: THIRD ELEGY: THE FEAR OF FORM

EMPIRE STATE TOWER

ENDLESS

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

FIGHTING FOR ROSES

FLYING RED HORSE

FLYING TO HANOI

FOGHORN IN HORROR

FOGHORN IN HORROR

FOR A MEXICAN PAINTER

FOR FUN

FOR KAY BOYLE

FOR MY SON

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

FULL MOON

GAME OF BALL

GAME OF DARTS AT THE CHESTERFIELD ARMS

GATES

GIBBS

GIFT

GIFT-POEM (1)

GIFT-POEM (2)

GIRL AT THE PLAY

GOLD LEAF

GRADUS AD PARNASSUM

GRAND CENTRAL STATION

GREEN LIMITS

HANDCLAP

HAYING BEFORE STORM

HE HAD A QUALITY OF GROWTH

HERO SPEECH

HERO SPEECH

HIS HEAD IS FULL OF FACES

HOLY FAMILY

HOMAGE TO LITERATURE

HOMAGE TO LITERATURE

HOW WE DID IT

HOW WE DID IT

I MAKE MY MAGIC

IN A DARK HOUSE

IN HADES, ORPHEUS

IN HER BURNING

IN OUR TIME

IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US

IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US

IN THE UNDERWORLD

IRIS

IRIS-EATERS

ISLANDS

ISLANDS

IT IS THERE

JETTY. DOVER

JOHN GRUMLIE

JUDITH

JUNK-HEAP AT MURANO

KATHE KOLLWITZ

KATHE KOLLWITZ

KEY

KING'S MOUNTAIN

KING'S MOUNTAIN

KNOWLEDGE MY NAKEDNESS

LANDSCAPE WITH WAVE APPROACHING

LAT. 10 NORTH, LONG. 45 WEST

LEG IN A PLASTER CAST

LETTER TO THE FRONT

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 1

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 10

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 2

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 3

LETTER TO THE FRONT: 4. SESTINA

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

LETTER, UNPOSTED

LITTLE STONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, IN FLORIDA

LIVES: ANN BURLAK

LIVES: CHAPMAN

LIVES: GIBBS

LIVES: IVES

LIVES: RYDER

LIVES: THE RISEN IMAGE SHINES

LOAN

LONG ENOUGH

LONG PAST MONCADA

LONG PAST MONCADA

LOOKING

LOOKING AT EACH OTHER

LOOKING AT EACH OTHER

LOST ROMANS

LOUIS SONNET

LOVE AND ITS DOORS AND WINDOWS

LOVER AS FOX

M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

M-DAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

MADBOY'S SONG

MAKE AND BE EATEN

MARTIN LUTHER KING, MALCOLM X

MARY SLEETH

MEDITERRANEAN: 1

MEDITERRANEAN: 1

MEDITERRANEAN: 2

MEDITERRANEAN: 2

MEDITERRANEAN: 3

MEDITERRANEAN: 3

MEDITERRANEAN: 4

MEDITERRANEAN: 4

MEDITERRANEAN: 5

MEDITERRANEAN: 5

MEDITERRANEAN: 6

MEDITERRANEAN: 7

MEETING

MENDINGS

MENDINGS

METAPHOR TO ACTION

METAPHOR TO ACTION

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

MINOTAUR

MORE CLUES

MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN

MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN

MORTAL GIRL

MOTHER GARDEN'S ROUND

MOTHER GARDENS' ROUND

MOTIVE

MOTIVE OF ALL OF IT

MOUNTAIN: ONE FROM BRYANT

MOVIE

MRS. WALPURGA

MRS. WALPURGA

MS. LOT

MURMURS FROM THE EARTH OF THIS LAND

MYTH

MYTH

MYTH

NERUDA, THE WINE

NERUDA, THE WINE

NERUDA, THE WINE

NEVERTHELESS THE MOON

NIGHT FEEDING

NIGHT FEEDING

NIGHT-MUSIC

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

NOTES FOR A POEM

NUNS IN THE WIND

O CITY

OF MONEY AND THE PAST

ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER

ONE MONTH

ONE SOLDIER

ORGY

ORPHEUS

OTHERWORLD. LANDING AT LIVERPOOL

OTHERWORLD: OTHERWORLD

OTHERWORLD: THE ISLAND

OUTER BANKS

OUTPOST

OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT

PAINTERS

PAINTERS

PALOS VERDES CLIFFS

PANACEA

PAPER ANNIVERSARY

PAPER ANNIVERSARY

PARALLEL INVENTION

PHANERON

PHANERON

PIECES OF ORPHEUS

PLACE AT ALERT BAY

PLACE-RITUALS

PLACE-RITUALS

POEM

POEM

POEM

POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD

POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD

POEM WHITE PAGE WHITE PAGE POEM

PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A BACKGROUND OF HOLDINGS

POURING MILK AWAY

POWER OF SUICIDE

PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SPHINX

QUESTION

READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS

READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS

RECOVERING

RECOVERING

RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHT SIDE

RETURN

RINGLING

RITE

ROCK FLOW, RIVER MIX

RONDEL

RONDEL

ROTTEN LAKE ELEGY

RUNE

RUNNING OF THE GRUNION

SACRED LAKE

SALAMANDER

SAND-QUARRY

SAND-QUARRY WITH MOVING FIGURES

SEA MERCY

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

SEARCHING/NOT SEARCHING

SECRETS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

SEEMING

SEGRE SONG

SEVENTH AVENUE

SEVENTH ELEGY: DREAM-SINGING ELEGY

SHOOTING GALLERY

SHORTEST WAY HOME

SILENCE OF VOLCANOES

SIMPLE EXPERIMENT

SIX CANONS

SIXTH ELEGY: RIVER ELEGY

SIXTH NIGHT: WAKING

SLOW DEATH OF THE DRAGON

SLOW DIALOGUE BETWEEN PAIN AND ROOSEVELT

SONG

SONG

SONG FOR DEAD CHILDREN

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

SONNET

SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN

SPEAKING TREE

SPEECH FOR THE ASSISTANT, FROM HOUDINI

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

SPEED, WE SAY

SPIRALS AND FUGUES

ST. ROACH

ST. ROACH

STATEMENT BY WILLKIE AFTER RETURNING FROM ENGLAND

STORY

STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY

STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY

SUBMIT YOUR OWN ANSWER

SUICIDE BLUES

SUICIDE BLUES

SUITE FOR LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER

SUMMER, THE SACRAMENTO

SUN-ARTIST

SUNDAYS, THEY SLEEP LATE

SURROUNDED

TENTH ELEGY: ELEGY IN JOY

THE BIRTH OF VENUS

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ALLOY

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GEORGE ROBINSON: BLUES

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: JUANITA TINSLEY

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: STATEMENT: PHILLIPA ALLEN

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE

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

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS

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

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: WEST VIRGINIA

THE CHILD ASLEEP

THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD

THE CHILDREN'S ELEGY

THE CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM

THE KEY

THE OUTER BANKS

THE OVERTHROW OF ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT

THE PLACE AT ALERT BAY

THE POEM AS MASK

THE POWER OF SUICIDE

THE RETURN

THE SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN

THE SPEAKING TREE

THE SPEED OF DARKNESS

THE SUROUNDED

THEN

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 STRUCTURE OF THE PLANE

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THE TUNNEL

THEORY OF FLIGHT: THEORY OF FLIGHT

THIS HOUSE, THIS COUNTRY

THIS IS GOING TO BE ABOUT SMOKE

THIS MORNING

THIS MORNING

THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS

THIS PLACE IN THE WAYS

THOUSANDS OF DAYS

THREE BLACK WOMEN

THREE SIDES OF A COIN

TIME EXPOSURES

TIME HINDER NOT ME; HIS ARMS REACH HERE AND THERE

TO BE A JEW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

TO ENTER THAT RHYTHM WHERE THE SELF IS LOST

TO KEEP THE WEAKNESS SECRET

TRADITIONAL TUNE

TRADITIONAL TUNE

TRANSGRESS

TREE

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

TROPHIES

TWO ILLUMINATIONS

TWO VOYAGES: MEDITERRANEAN

TWO VOYAGES: THE CRUISE

TWO YEARS

UNBORN SONG

UNBORN SONG

VICTIMS, A PLAY FOR THE HOME

VOICES

VOICES OF WAKING

WAITING FOR ICARUS

WAITING FOR ICARUS

WAKE ISLAND

WAKING THIS MORNING

WALTZ

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

WATCHER

WATER NIGHT

WATER NIGHT

WATERLILY FIRE

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

WHEREVER

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

WOODEN SPRING

WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN

WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN

WORD OF MOUTH: I / THE RETURN

WORK, FOR THE DAY IS COMING

WREATH OF WOMEN

WRITER

YES

YOUNG GIRL OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY



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