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Article: The Life of Poetry.(Brief Article)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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About a year ago, a close friend of mine started telling me to read Muriel Rukeyser's essay The Life of Poetry. I went looking for the book, which at the time had been out of print for nearly twenty years, and found an old copy at the University of Wisconsin library. The book immediately began to matter to me because it asks questions that will preoccupy anyone who loves art but who also wants to live a politically committed life. Now Paris Press has republished The Life of Poetry in a new, more accessible format.
Rukeyser's writings fell out of print after her death in 1980, even though her poetry had strongly influenced such writers as Denise Levertov and ...