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A poet’s lost biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century—as well as an ingenious and expansive treatise on American creativity, character, and remembrance.Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century of science by bridging classical mechanics and quantum physics. A kindly and shy bachelor who lectured at Yale in relative obscurity for more than...

This first collection and scholarly edition of Muriel Rukeyser's previously unpublished and uncollected prose draws from her journalism, literary essays, book reviews, lectures, stories, and radio scripts. The selections, annotations, and editorial apparatuses highlight the connections between Rukeyser's modernist experimental poetics and antifascist, antiracist, and queer feminist radical politics"--

This first collection and scholarly edition of Muriel Rukeyser's previously unpublished and uncollected prose draws from her journalism, literary essays, book reviews, lectures, stories, and radio scripts. The selections, annotations, and editorial apparatuses highlight the connections between Rukeyser's modernist experimental poetics and antifascist, antiracist, and queer feminist radical politics"--

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The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of...

Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American.

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Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest." - Muriel Rukeyser, "Elegy in Joy" First published by New Directions in 1949, Muriel Rukeyser's Elegies were written over a seven years period the end of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the beginnings of the Cold War. Both and homage to Rilke's Duino Elegies and a spiritual reckoning that is particularly resonant today, these poems present no ange...

Unlock Houdini! Explore time and reality--on the page, in a box, under water, onstage.

Houdini unlocks time and reality--on the page, in a box, under water, onstage!

The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser confronts the turbulent currents of 20th-century history, as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change, and family life. She was a social activist of unwavering commitment, a tireless experimenter who opened fresh forms and fresh subject matter in modern American poetry, and a writer who was constantly testing her own limits in a life's work of e...

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Those who travel know the experience of extended time and sharpened perception. Rukeyser's account of Puck Fair in County Kerry, Ireland, does just this. "The Orgy" evokes a journey of sensual and psychological transformation in the midst of Irish culture and tradition.

Observing that poetry is a natural part of our pastimes and rituals, Rukeyser opposes elitist attitudes and confronts Americans' fear of feeling. Multicultural and interdisciplinary, this volume makes an irrefutable case for the centrality of poetry in American life.