How to read Rukeyser?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Elisabeth Däumer It seems right to begin this blog on the new Rukeyser website by exploring the different ways of reading that Rukeyser's poetry invites or compels us to engage in. This semester, I am guiding an independent study on Rukeyser with Chelsea Lonsdale, a student who will join EMU's graduate program in Written Communication in the fall (2012) and who is currently completing an undergraduate thesis on craft--the "craft" of composition and "craft" if I understand her correctly in general. So part of what we'll do together is to "read" individual poems by [...]