Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to
create social change through language. She earned an international
reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all
kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her
eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro Nine, the Spanish
Civil War, the poisoning of the Gauley Bridge laborers-split the
darkness covering a shameful world.
In addition to the complete texts of her twelve previously
published books, this volume also features new poems discovered by
the editors; Rukeyser's translations, including the first English
translations of Octavio Paz's work; early work by Rukeyser not
previously published in book form; and the controversial
book-length poem Wake Island. An introduction by the editors traces
Rukeyser's life and literary reputation and complements discerning
annotations and textual notes to the poems.
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