Muriel Rukeyser Quote

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare


Selected Poems (ed. 2004)


American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the...

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the...

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the...

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the...