Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
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Columbus, 523
Burning the Dreams, 526
Death and the Dancer, 526
Rational Man, 526
The Hostages, 528
Breathing Landscape, 19
Brecht's Galileo, 482
Bringing, 498
The Broken World, 210
Bubble of Air, 231
Bunk Johnson Blowing, 434
Burlesque, 59
The Burning, 405
Burning Bush, 112
Burning the Dreams, 526
Burnishing, Oakland, 557
“The Cabinet minister speaks of liberation”, 563
Canal, 544
Cannibal Bratuscha, 435
Careful of the Day, 273
Cats and a Cock, 63
The Cave, 208
A Certain Music, 259
Chapman, 188
Chapultepec Park—1, 233
Chapultepec Park—2, 234
A Charm for Cantinflas, 263
Child and Mother, 53
The Child Asleep, 124
Child in the Great Wood, 212
Children, the Sandbar, That Summer, 353
The Children's Orchard, 261
Christmas Eve, 261
The Church of Galilee, 564
Citation for Horace Gregory, 62
Cities of the Morning, 573
City of Monuments, 51
Clouds, Airs, Carried Me Away, 255
Clues, 416
College Special, 581
Columbus, 523
The Committee-Room, 26
Concrete, 482
The Conjugation of the Paramecium, 414
The Cornfield, 92
Correspondences, 164
Democritus Laughed, 164
Tree of Days, 164
1/26/39, 165
Correspondences, 166
Correspondences, 166
Course, 120
Crayon House, 262
Cries from Chiapas, 424
“Crucified child—is he crucified? he is tortured”, 567
The Cruise, 133
The Dam, 99
Darkness Music, 215
Day, 361
“Dear place, sweet home”, 583
Death and the Dancer, 526
Delta Poems, 426
Democritus Laughed, 164
Desdichada, 474
Despisals, 471
Destruction of Grief, 555
The Disease, 86
The Disease: After-Effects, 102
Divining Water, 358
The Doctors, 89
Don Baty, the Draft Resister, 495
Double Dialogue:
Homage To Robert Frost, 417
Double Ode, 534
Dream-Drumming, 534
The Dream of Galilee, 564
Driveway, 128
The Drowning Young Man, 119
Drunken Girl, 222
Easter Eve 1945, 276
Eccentric Motion, 55
Eel, 113
Effort at Speech between Two People, 9
Eighth Elegy. Children's Elegy, 321
Empire State Tower, 582
Endless, 445
“Even during war, moments of delicate peace”, 239
“Evening, bringing me out of the government building”, 243
Evening Plaza, San Miguel, 237
Exile of Music, 344
Eyes of Night-Time, 253
Fable [Body of Waking], 360
Fable [The Gates], 549
The Face of the Dam: Vivian Jones, 78
Facing Sentencing, 497
Fields Where We Slept, 384
Fifth Elegy. A Turning Wind, 310
Fighting for Roses, 428
Fire, 475
First Elegy. Rotten Lake, 299
A Flashing Cliff, 111
The Floor of Ocean, 483
The Flying Red Horse, 447
Flying to Hanoi, 508
Foghorn in Horror, 265
F.O.M., 343
For a Mexican Painter, 404
For an Aesthete, 583
For Dolci, 481
For Fun, 162
For Kay Boyle, 545
For Memory, 48
Life and Works, 48
Holy Dying, 49
Ritual for Death, 50
For My Son, 429
“For that I cannot name the names”, 567
for the Song of Songs, 455
Forerunners, 418
Forgetting and Remembering, 441
Formosa, 122
Four in a Family, 19
Fourteenth Street, 579
Fourth Elegy. The Refugees, 307
Fragile, 409
From a Play : Publisher's Song, 503
from City of Paradise, 477
from Sun Stone, 366
From the Duck-Pond to the Carousel, 174
from “To the Unborn Child”, 229
A Game of Ball, 235
The Gates, 561
Gauley Bridge, 77
“Waiting to leave all day I hear the words”, 561
“Walking the world to find the poet of these cries”, 562
New Friends, 562
“The Cabinet minister speaks of liberation”, 563
“Among the days”, 563
The Church of Galilee, 564
The Dream of Galilee, 564
Mother as Pitchfork, 565
“You grief woman you gave me a scarlet coverlet”, 565
“Air fills with fear and the kinds of fear”, 565
“Long ago, soon after my son's birth”, 567
“For that I cannot name the names”, 567
“Crucified child—is he crucified? he is tortured”, 567
“So I became very dark very large”, 568
“All day the rain”, 569
George Robinson: Blues, 87
Gibbs, 182
Gift, 424
Gift-Poem [Beast in View], 224
Gift-Poem [U.S. 1], 130
Girl at the Play, 111
A Girl for a Boy—Stroking Song, 518
Gold Leaf, 236
Gradus Ad Parnassum, 502
Green Limits, 260
Guessing Time, 377
The Gyroscope, 24
The Handclap, 115
“The hand of day opens”, 359
Haying before Storm, 333
He Had a Quality of Growth, 398
“Held among wars, watching”, 462
“Held between wars”, 460
Hero Speech, 346
H. F. D., 483
His Head Is Full of Faces, 257
Holy Dying, 49
Holy Family, 228
Homage to Literature, 115
Homage To Robert Frost, 417
“Home thoughts from home; we read you every day”, 242
The Hostages, 528
How Lovely It Is, 517
How to Impress Massachusetts, 367
How We Did It, 538
Hypnogogic Figure, 542
I Recognize This Song, 515
I'm Here Again, 513
In a Dark House, 6
In Hades, Orpheus, 118
In Her Burning, 478
“In her splendor islanded”, 362
In Our Time, 417
“In the last hour of night, a zebra racing dawn”, 384
In the Night the Sound Woke Us, 503
In the Underworld, 503
“In your time, there have been those who spoke clearly”, 397
Inland, Away, 512
Iris, 490
The Iris-Eaters, 558
The Island [Otherworld], 158
The Island [Waterlily Fire], 406
Islands, 538
It Is There, 508
Ives, 195
The Journey, 207
Journey Changes, 408
Juanita Tinsley, 88
Judith, 179
Junk-Heap at Murano, 415
Käthe Kollwitz, 460
“Held between wars�
�, 460
“Woman as gates, saying”, 461
“Held among wars, watching”, 462
Song : The Calling-Up, 463
Self-Portrait, 463
The Key, 214
The Kind of Woman, 376
Kings and Contemporaries, 370
King's Mountain, 335
Landing at Liverpool, 157
Landscape with Wave Approaching, 433
Leg in a Plaster Cast, 230
Les Tendresses Bestiales, 209
“Let poems and bodies love and be given to air”, 252
Letter to the Front, 239
“Women and poets see the truth arrive”, 239
“Even during war, moments of delicate peace”, 239
“They called us to a change of heart”, 240
Sestina, 241
“Much later, I lie in a white seaport night”, 242
“Home thoughts from home; we read you every day”, 242
“To be a Jew in the twentieth century”, 243
“Evening, bringing me out of the government building”, 243
“Among all the waste there are the intense stories”, 244
“Surely it is time for the true grace of women”, 246
Letter, Unposted, 14
Life and Works, 48
Life of the Poet, 363
“Like ivy the creeper with a thousand hands”, 363
A Little Stone in the Middle of the Road, in Florida, 440
The Loan, 352
“Long ago, soon after my son's birth”, 567
The Long Body, 409
“Long enough. Long enough”, 351
Long Past Moncada, 232
Looking, 494
Looking at Each Other, 473
The Lost Romans, 543
A Louis Sonnet, 499
Love and Its Doors and Windows, 222
The Lover, 42
Lover as Fox, 129
Lovers, 270
The Lynchings of Jesus, 25
Passage to Godhead, 25
The Committee-Room, 26
The Trial, 29
Madboy's Song, 221
“Make and be eaten, the poet says”, 345
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, 494
M-Day's Child, 177
Mearl Blankenship, 82
Mediterranean, 144
The Meeting, 213
Mendings, 560
Metaphor to Action, 61
The Minotaur, 223
Miriam : The Red Sea, 481
More Clues, 479
More of a Corpse than a Woman, 121
Mortal Girl, 211
Mother as Pitchfork, 565
Mother Garden's Round, 336
The Motive of All of It, 259
Mountain : One from Bryant, 447
Movie, 60
Mrs. Walpurga, 257
Ms. Lot, 540
“Much later, I lie in a white seaport night”, 242
“Murmurs from the earth of this land, from the caves and craters”, 380
My Breath, 514
Myth, 480
Neruda, the Wine, 550
Nevertheless the Moon, 354
The New Bridge, 581
New Friends, 562
The New School for Social Research, 580
Next, 490
Night Feeding, 340
Night Flight : New York, 44
Night-Music, 123
Time Exposures, 123
The Child Asleep, 124
Adventures, Midnight, 126
Night-Music, 127
Night-Music, 127
Nine Poems for the unborn child, 280
Ninth Elegy. The Antagonists, 325
Niobe Now, 422
Noguchi, 168
Not before I Fall Asleep, 275
Not Much Good, 514
Not Searching, 485
Not to Be Printed, Not to Be Said, Not to Be Thought, 554
Not Yet, 432
Notes for a Poem, 11
November Sketches, 576
Nuns in the Wind, 161
O City, 579
Of Money. And the Past, 350
The Old Days, 512
On the Death of Her Mother, 344
“On your journey you will come to a time of waking”, 389
One Month, 438
One Soldier, 207
1/26/39, 165
Orgy, 419
Orpheus, 287
Orpheus, 413
Otherworld, 157
Landing at Liverpool, 157
The Island, 158
Otherworld, 159
Otherworld, 159
The Outer Banks, 448
Outpost, 132
The Overthrow of One O'Clock at Night, 420
Painters, 537
Palos Verdes Cliffs, 171
Panacea, 117
Paper Anniversary, 172
Parallel Invention, 553
Park Avenue, 581
Passage to Godhead, 25
Pastorale No. 2, 584
Phaneron, 333
The Pickle, the Temple, 372
The Place at Alert Bay, 357
Place-Poems: New York, 579
O City, 579
Fourteenth Street, 579
The New School for Social Research, 580
Sheridan Square Conversation, 580
The New Bridge, 581
Park Avenue, 581
College Special, 582
Empire State Tower, 582
“Dear place, sweet home”, 583
Place-Rituals, 12
Tradition of This Acre, 12
Ritual of Blessing, 12
Poem [The Gates], 554
Poem [Speed of Darkness], 430
The Poem as Mask, 413
Orpheus, 413
Poem out of Childhood, 3
Poem White Page White Page Poem, 549
Poet's Epitaph, 268
Portrait of a Man, with a Background of Holdings, 385
Pouring Milk Away, 353
Power, 96
“Power never dominion”, 387
The Power of Suicide, 430
“The power of war leads to a plan of lives”, 381
Powerplant, 383
Praise of the Committee, 79
Preamble, 21
The President and the Laser Bomb, 484
The Prisoner, 364
Private Life of the Sphinx, 277
Proverbs, 362
The Question, 477
The Question, 485
Rari, 274
Rari for Hepuheku, 273
Rari for O'Otua, 272
Rari for Tahia and Piu, 271
Rari, to Be Bothered by Mosquitos, 274
Rari to Encourage Youth, 274
Rational Man, 526
Reading the Kieu, 482
Reading Time : 1 Minute 26 Seconds, 155
Recovering, 552
“A red bridge fastening this city to the forest”, 386
Resurrection of the Right Side, 545
The Return, 341
The Return, 442
Ringling, 338
“The risen image shines, its force escapes, we are all named”, 181
Rite, 337
Ritual for Death, 50
Ritual of Blessing, 12
The Road, 73
Rock Flow, River Mix, 493
Rondel, 479
Rune, 537
The Running of the Grunion, 509
Ryder, 185
Sacred Lake, 511
Salamander, 256
Sand-Quarry with Moving Figures, 15
“The sea has opened, the limit of his dream”, 382
Sea Mercy, 232
Searching / Not Searching, 480
“What kind of woman goes searching and searching?”, 480
Miriam : The Red Sea, 481
For Dolci, 481
Concrete, 482
Brecht's Galileo, 482
Reading the Kieu, 482
The Floor of Ocean, 483
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br /> H. F. D., 483
The Artist as Social Critic, 484
The President and the Laser Bomb, 484
Not Searching, 485
The Question, 485
“Searching/not searching. To make closeness”, 486
“What did I see? What did I not see?”, 486
“Searching/not searching. To make closeness”, 486
Second Elegy. Age of Magicians, 302
Secrets of American Civilization, 497
The Seeming, 431
Segre Song, 434
Self-Portrait, 463
Sestina, 241
Seventh Avenue, 169
Seventh Elegy. Dream-Singing Elegy, 318
Sheridan Square Conversation, 580
Shooting Gallery, 216
Shooting Star, 520
The Shortest Way Home, 170
Silence of Volcanoes, 439
A Simple Experiment, 487
The Six Canons, 418
Sixth Elegy. River Elegy, 314
The Sixth Night: Waking, 354
“The sky is as black as it was when you lay down”, 388
Slow Death of the Dragon, 558
“So I became very dark very large”, 568
Song [Beast in View], 215
Song [Waterlily Fire], 405
Song for Dead Children, 5
Song, from “Mr. Amazeen On The River”, 255
Song from Puck Fair, 432
Song : Love in Whose Rich Honor, 422
Song : Lying in Daylight, 542
A Song of Another Tribe, 404
Song : Remembering Movies, 551
Song, the Brain-Coral, 155
Song : The Calling-Up, 463
Song : The Star in the Nets of Heaven, 423
Songs of the Barren Grounds, 512
The Old Days, 512
Inland, Away, 512
I'm Here Again, 513
Not Much Good, 514
My Breath, 514
Sonnet, 13
The Soul and Body of John Brown, 247
“Sounds of night in the country of the opposites”, 395
Spark, 269
The Speaking Tree, 403
Speech for the Assistant, from Houdini, 178
Speech of the Mother, from The Middle of the Air, 266
The Speed of Darkness, 465
Speed, We Say, 355
Spirals and Fugues, 427
St. Roach, 533
Statement: Phillippa Allen, 75
The Street, 269
The Strike, 31
Stroking Songs, 518
A Girl for a Boy—Stroking Song, 518
The Baby on the Mountain—Stroking Song, 519
The Wiping Moss from the Ruins, 519
Stroking Songs, Childhood Songs, 520
Being Born, 520
Shooting Star, 520
The Structure of the Plane, 38
The Structure of the Plane, 38
The Strike, 41
The Lover, 42
The Structure of the Plane, 38
Study in a Late Subway, 53
Suicide Blues, 216
Suite for Lord Timothy Dexter, 367
“They face us in sea-noon sun, just as he saw them waiting”, 367
How to Impress Massachusetts, 367
Three Nights I Dreamed, 369
Kings and Contemporaries, 370
The Pickle, the Temple, 372
The Kind of Woman, 376
Guessing Time, 377
Summer, the Sacramento, 265