Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Biographical Sketch | About The Life of Poetry | Overviews of The Book of the Dead | About the Hawk's Nest Incident--Background to The Book of the Dead | | "Investigation Relating to Health Conditions of Workers Employed in the Construction and Maintenance of Public Utilities": A Transcript of a 1936 Report of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Labor"--Background for Book of the Dead |  On "The Road" | On "West Virginia" | On "Gauley Bridge" | On "The Face of the Dam: Vivian Jones" | On "Mearl Blankenship" | On "Absalom" | On "The Disease" and "The Bill" | On "George Robinson: Blues" | On "Arthur Peyton" | On "Alloy" | On "Power" | On "The Dam" | On "The Book of the Dead" | On "To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century" | On "The Poem as Mask" | On "Poem" (I lived in the first century of world wars) | About the Sonnet |  The Minotaur in Classical Myth | About The Holocaust | About the Great Depression | Online Poems | External Links |

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