Tag Archives: Muriel Rukeyser
Discovering Muriel Rukeyser as a Young Writer
On her 16th birthday, my best friend Jess received a copy of Out of Silence: Selected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser from her mother. Jess and I didn’t live in the same state, so we were avid letter writers; after that … Continue reading
Muriel Rukeyser and Other Writers
In just a few days, I will have the pleasure of chairing a panel at the American Literature Association’s annual conference at Washington, DC. The panel, organised by Elisabeth Däumer (herself a force of intellectual connectivity of the sort Rukeyser … Continue reading
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Tagged Houdini, Muriel Rukeyser, Savage Coach, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot
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‘Islands’: Dragging Our Heads Back
The latest draft of the Throat of These Hours radio play, now with a rigorous reader, was hard and slow. I had to reduce – drop storylines, drop characters, drop themes, drop dialogue – and distill. Reduce and distill again. … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie McMullen, Bill Rukeyser, Chris Black, Christine White, Hinemoana Baker, Islands, Jane Campion, Jason White, John Cage, John Psathas, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham, Muriel Rukeyser, negative capability, New Zealand, Pirouette, Scott Walker, Speed of Darkness, Steven Price, Tape Art New Zealand, Then, Throat of These Hours, Tim Bray Productions, William Packard
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Throat of These Hours
from The Speed of Darkness 13 My night awake staring at the broad rough jewel the copper roof across the way thinking of the poet yet unborn in this dark who will be the throat of these hours. No. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christine White, Lorae Parry, Madeline McNamara, Marian Evans, motherhood, Muriel Rukeyser, Throat of These Hours
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Waterlily Fire
Elisabeth Däumer’s post Context for Waterlily Fire rightly points out the theme of interrelatedness that runs through the Living Archive’s featured poem this month. When I first read “Waterlily Fire,” I was struck even more by the idea of impermanence … Continue reading
Muriel Rukeyser, Zombie Necromancer
I don’t care for this new zombie renaissance. And I don’t mean that like I’m afraid of zombies or something. I just think that 1). it’s a default subject matter for horror writers, 2). all interesting scenarios and subject matters … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimee Bender, Elegies, metonymy, Muriel Rukeyser, synecdoche, The Book of the Dead, Zombies
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Synecdoche, West Virginia
This past spring I was attending a Creative Writing Department meeting here at Eastern Michigan University, and one of my colleagues mentioned a list of literary terms that we’re supposed to make sure all of our Intro students are familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged metonymy, Muriel Rukeyser, Pedagogy, Shoshana Wechsler, synecdoche, The Book of the Dead
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Important Poetry
One good thing about the gym that I go to is that people are always leaving behind old issues of Harper’s and The New Yorker, allowing me to cancel both of my subscriptions in exchange for getting them like a … Continue reading