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425 wordsRukeyser On " Alloy" Stephanie Hartman Rukeyser presents this allure as superficial, sinister, deceptive: This is the most audacious landscape. The gangsters stance with his gun smoking and out is not so vicious as this commercial field, its hill of glass. Sloping as gracefully as thighs, the foothills narrow to this, clouds over every town finally indicate the stored destruction. (OS 2 The apparently beautiful hill is a mere glittering surface, hiding the lethal silica. Sexualizing th...
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2,219 wordsAs On " Power" Robert Shulman As she gathers momentum, Rukeyser amplifies the religious and political implications of " Alloy" in the crucial sequence, " Power" and " The Dam. " Before she moves into the depths, first of the powerhouse, then of the dam, in " Power" (pp. 49 - 53) Rukeyser draws on the resources of classical poetic forms and language to bring alive the setting: " the quick sun, " the warm mountains, a vital, serialized la...
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4,510 wordsOn " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Essay, On " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Note: This is excerpted from a longer essay on Reznikoff. DOCUMENTARY CULTURE The title of my chapter is taken from Muriel Rukeyser's " Poem out of Childhood" (1935), which describes the shift among writers of her generation from " Sappho" to " Sacco, " from the expatriate salon culture of the 1920 s to 1930 s activism inaugurated by the Sacco-Vanzett...
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2,301 wordsLouise Kertesz We are meant to hold these clusters of meaning in the mind as they reveal the fullness of reality. Some of the meanings the poet is allowing to expand into their constellations are these: in " Power" death is both finality and source of power; but in another sense, one cannot say that power has any source, any beginning or end thus the first line of " The Dam. " But that line is followed by Rises in the green season, in the sudden season the white the budded an...
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1,236 wordsRobert Shulman In " West Virginia" Rukeyser takes the river and locale back to their colonial sources. This abrupt imaginative leap begins to fill in the history she started with John Marshall. At the start " they saw rivers flow west and hoped again. " At first we do not know who " they" are but we soon understand that this hope for the sea is disappointed. The powerful rivers flowing west are nonetheless connected with the vital promise of America, an organizing m...
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8,423 wordsRuth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Ruth Stone: Voice From Society's Margins, By Mary Ann Wehler Mary Ann Wehler Ruth Stone was forty-four when she published her first book, In an Iridescent Time, in 1959. In fact, Norman Friedman states in his essay, " The Poetry of Ruth Stone" (46) that Stone had mastered the elegant formal conventions of that era. Soon after, Harvey Gross deems in his article, " On the Poetry of Ruth Stone, " that Stone was versed in " balanc...
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