Muriel Rukeyser: July 28, 1955
The Poetry Center presents Muriel Rukeyser reading from her poetry.
- Originally Recorded By
- The Poetry Center
- Location
- San Francisco Museum of Art
- Date
- 07/28/1955
- Total Run Time
- 00:30:14
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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- Opening remarks (0:00)
- Remarks on three published poems, language and inspiration for her poetry, the music of poetry, and her theory on the origins of poetry (0:30)
- "Effort at Speech" (3:53)
- "Homage to Literature" (7:48)
- "Four in a Family" (9:07)
- Remarks on four newer poems (11:14)
- "A Birth" (11:45)
- Sound cuts out (13:51)
- "A Birth" continued (13:52)
- Dead air (14:08)
- "Body of Waking" (14:38)
- Remarks on "F.O.M." (16:56)
- "F.O.M." (17:04)
- "The Return" (18:12)
- Remarks on "Hang Before Storm" (20:29)
- "Hang Before Storm" (20:38)
- interruption from incoming people (20:51)
- "Hang Before Storm" con't (21:20)
- Remarks on ideas and inspiration of opposites and writers with regard to emotion and reality (23:07)
- Remarks on the selection from "Tree of Rivers" (24:48)
- "Tree of Rivers" (book excerpt) (26:41)
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