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Poetry

Theory of Flight (1935)

  • Effort at Speech Between Two People
  • In a Dark House
  • Letter, Unposted
  • Metaphor to Action
  • Notes for a Poem
  • Place-Rituals
  • Poem Out of Childhood
  • Song for Dead Children
  • Sonnet
  • Wooden Spring

U.S. 1 (1938)

  • The Road

A Turning Wind (1939)

  • Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds
  • First Elegy: Rotten Lake

Beast in View (1944)

  • The Minotaur
  • One Soldier
  • Song
  • To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
  • The Soul and Body of John Brown
  • Ajanta

The Green Wave (1948)

  • Water Night

Body of Waking (1958)

  • Haying Before Storm
  • A Birth
  • King’s Mountain
  • Asleep and Awake
  • “Long enough, Long enough”

The Speed of Darkness (1968)

  • Anemone
  • For My Son
  • Poem
  • The Overthrow of One O’Clock at Night
  • Song : Love In Whose Rich Honor

Breaking Open (1973)

  • All The Little Animals
  • Ballad of Orange and Grape
  • Desdichada
  • Despisals
  • From a Play : Publisher’s Song
  • H. F. D.
  • In the Night the Sound Woke Us
  • Myth
  • Waking This Morning

The Gates (1976)

  • St. Roach
  • The Iris-Eaters
  • Islands
  • Artifact

Houdini (2002)

  • Yes
  • Beer and Bacon
  • Chains, Freedom, Keys
  • I Make My Magic

Other Poems

  • More of a Corpse Than a Woman
  • Beer and Bacon
  • Wake Island
  • Lecture by Mr. Eliot
  • The Return
  • The Ballad of the Missing Lines

Prose

  • Excerpt from The Savage Coast

Long Poetry

  • Ajanta
  • Akiba
  • Breaking Open
  • Käthe Kollwitz
  • Searching/Not Searching
  • The Outer Banks
  • The Speed of Darkness
  • Waterlily Fire

Muriel Rukeyser

Learn more about this important twentieth-century poet from our website – Who was Rukeyser?.

Additional Information

  • Rukeyser’s Difficulty, American Literature Association, May 26, 2022
  • Houdini Webinar
  • Revisiting Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies in Times like These: A Webinar, February 19-20, 2021
  • JNT Special Issue on Muriel Rukeyser Ordering Information
  • Rukeyser symposium 2013

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