Muriel Rukeyser S The Book Of The Dead
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The Book Of The Dead
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Book Of The Dead written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Muriel Rukeyser S The Book Of The Dead
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Author : Tim Dayton
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2003-07-07
Muriel Rukeyser S The Book Of The Dead written by Tim Dayton and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men—likely somewhere between 700 and 800—died of acute silicosis, a lung disorder caused by prolonged inhalation of silica dust, after working on a tunnel project in Fayette County, West Virginia, in the early 1930s. After many years of relative neglect, The Book of the Dead has recently returned to print and has become the subject of critical attention. In Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead,” Tim Dayton continues that study by characterizing the literary and political world of Rukeyser at the time she wrote The Book of the Dead. Rukeyser’s poem clearly emerges from 1930s radicalism, as well as from Rukeyser’s deeply felt calling to poetry. After describing the world from which the poem emerged, Dayton sets up the fundamental factual matters with which the poem is concerned, detailing the circumstances of the Gauley Tunnel tragedy, and establishes a framework derived from the classical tripartite division of the genres—epic, lyric, and dramatic. Through this framework, he sees Rukeyser presenting a multifaceted reflection upon the significance, particularly the historical significance, of the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. For Rukeyser, that disaster was the emblem of a history in which those who do the work of the world are denied control of the vast powers they bring into being. Dayton also studies the critical reception of The Book of the Dead and determines that while the contemporary response was mixed, most reviewers felt that Rukeyser had certainly attempted something of value and significance. He pays particular attention to John Wheelwright’s critical review and to the defenses of Rukeyser launched in the 1980s and 1990s by Louise Kertesz and Walter Kalaidjian. The author also examines the relationship between Marxism as a theory of history governing The Book of the Dead and the poem itself, which presents a vision of history. Based upon primary scholarship in Rukeyser’s papers, a close reading of the poem, and Marxist theory, Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” offers a comprehensive and compelling analysis of The Book of the Dead and will likely remain the definitive work on this poem.
Coal Mountain Elementary
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Author : Mark Nowak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Coal Mountain Elementary written by Mark Nowak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Poetry categories.
"A tribute to miners and working people everywhere."--Howard Zinn
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-06-08
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Poetry categories.
The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.” The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser’s most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.
The Speed Of Darkness
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Speed Of Darkness written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with American poetry categories.
Theory Of Flight
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Theory Of Flight written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with American poetry categories.
U S 1
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
U S 1 written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with American poetry categories.
This book contains one of Muriel Rukeyser's most powerful pieces; a group of poems entitled The Book of the Dead (1938), documenting the details of the Hawk's Nest incident, an industrial disaster in which hundreds of miners died of silicosis.
Savage Coast
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Savage Coast written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by The Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Fiction categories.
Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.
Hawk S Nest
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Author : Hubert Skidmore
language : en
Publisher: Appalachian Echoes
Release Date : 2004
Hawk S Nest written by Hubert Skidmore and has been published by Appalachian Echoes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Appalachian Echoes Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor "Very real and tremendously moving. . . . Not only an obvious brief for the unfortunate but a well told and honest story." --New York Times "Hubert Skidmore, a native West Virginian, wrote as a witness from inside the belly of the beast. His gift is for pitch-perfect dialogue, a varied cast of characters, and the calling up of emotion, of anger, fear, dread, and love. To encounter this novel at last is a sort of resurrection, both for its persecuted author and the Depression poor whose lives it evokes." --Denise Giardina, author of The Unquiet Earth and Storming Heaven The building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941 novel, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation apparently convinced publisher Doubleday, Doran & Co. to pull the book from publication after only a few hundred copies had appeared. Now the Appalachian Echoes series makes Hawk's Nest available to a new generation of readers. This is the riveting tale of starving men and women making their way from all over the Depression-era United States to the hope and promise of jobs and a new life. What they find in West Virginia is "tunnelitis," or silicosis, a disease which killed at least seven hundred workers--probably many more--a large number of them African American, virtually all of them poor. Skidmore's roman � clef provides a narrative with emotional drive, interwoven with individual stories that capture the hopes and the desperation of the Depression: the Reips who come from the farm with their pots and pans and hard-working children, the immigrants Pete and Anna, kind waitress Lessie Lee, and "hobos" Jim Martin, "Long" Legg, and Owl Jones, the last of whom, as an African American, receives the worst treatment. This important story of conscience encompasses labor history, Appalachian studies, and literary finesse. Hubert Skidmore (1909-1946) was the author of five other novels: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (1936), Heaven Came So Near (1938), River Rising (1939), Hill Doctor (1950), and Hill Lawyer (1942). He died in a house fire at the age of thirty-seven.
The Collected Poems
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Release Date : 1978
The Collected Poems written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by McGraw-Hill Companies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with American poetry categories.
Muriel Rukeyser earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. 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.'