Description
An elegant relaunch of Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies, previously available only in a limited edition, celebrates the centennial of her birth
"Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest." — Muriel Rukeyser, “Elegy in Joy”
First published by New Directions in 1949, Muriel Rukeyser’s Elegies were written over a seven years period the end of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the beginnings of the Cold War. Both and homage to Rilke’s Duino Elegies and a spiritual reckoning that is particularly resonant today, these poems present no angelic orders, only the difficulties of living in the modern world, the depths of shipwreck, and “Love that gives us ourselves, in the world known to all.”
Reviews
"Rukeyser appears more and more as an exemplary American modernist, the lyric poet of epic awareness." — Washington Post
"The breadth, innovation, variety, and daring of Muriel Rukeyser’s work have always defied efforts to confine her. Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States in its range of reference, its generosity of vision, and its energy." — Adrienne Rich
Also By: Muriel Rukeyser 
The Poems of Octavio Paz
Paperback, 2018
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureateThe Poems of Octavio Paz
E Book, 2018
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate
Also By: Jan Heller Levi
A Muriel Rukeyser Reader
Paperback, 1995
A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life.