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Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book Of The Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book Of The Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
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Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry has always focused around a particular event be it something of global proportions such as the Spanish Civil War (Mediterranean) or the Japanese occupation of Korea (The Gates) or, as with The Book of the Dead, a specific disaster closer to her home, America. Her poetry, however, never exists purely in the realm of politics; she never aligned herself with any particular political party and consequently her poetry is never simply a call to arms or a manifesto in verse. Throughout the body of Rukeyser’s work there are echoes and allusions to …