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Selected Writings

Poetry

Theory of Flight (1935)

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  • Effort at Speech Between Two People
  • In a Dark House
  • Letter, Unposted
  • Metaphor to Action
  • Notes for a Poem
  • Place-Rituals
  • Poem Out of Childhood
  • Song for Dead Children
  • Sonnet
  • Wooden Spring

U.S. 1 (1938)

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  • The Road

A Turning Wind (1939)

A Turning Wind Cover

  • Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds
  • First Elegy: Rotten Lake

Beast in View (1944)

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  • The Minotaur
  • One Soldier
  • Song
  • To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
  • The Soul and Body of John Brown
  • Ajanta

The Green Wave (1948)

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  • Water Night

Body of Waking (1958)

  • Haying Before Storm
  • A Birth
  • King’s Mountain
  • Asleep and Awake
  • “Long enough, Long enough”

The Speed of Darkness (1968)

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  • Anemone
  • For My Son
  • Poem
  • The Overthrow of One O’Clock at Night
  • Song : Love In Whose Rich Honor

Breaking Open (1973)

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  • All The Little Animals
  • Ballad of Orange and Grape
  • Desdichada
  • Despisals
  • From a Play : Publisher’s Song
  • H. F. D.
  • In the Night the Sound Woke Us
  • Myth
  • Waking This Morning

The Gates (1976)

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  • St. Roach
  • The Iris-Eaters
  • Islands
  • Artifact

Houdini (2002)

  • Yes
  • Beer and Bacon
  • Chains, Freedom, Keys
  • I Make My Magic

Other Poems

Young Rukeyser

  • More of a Corpse Than a Woman
  • Beer and Bacon
  • Wake Island
  • Lecture by Mr. Eliot
  • The Return
  • The Ballad of the Missing Lines

Prose

Savage Coast Cover

  • Excerpt from The Savage Coast

Long Poetry

  • Ajanta
  • Akiba
  • Breaking Open
  • Käthe Kollwitz
  • Searching/Not Searching
  • The Outer Banks
  • The Speed of Darkness
  • Waterlily Fire

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Featured Poems

  • Waterlily Fire
  • The Iris-Eaters
  • The Book of the Dead
  • The Overthrow of One O'Clock at Night

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