| Description |
xi, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"First printing"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
I. From THEORY OF FLIGHT 1935 -- Effort at speech between two people -- Breathing landscape -- Sand-quarry with moving figures -- Song for dead chldren -- Notes for a poem -- Wooden spring -- Sonnet -- Four in a family -- The gyroscope -- Sundays, they sleep late -- The surrounded -- Movie -- Cats and a cock -- II. From U. S. 1 1938 -- Gauley Bridge, from "The book of the dead" -- Praise of the Committee, from "The book of the dead" -- The disease, from "The book of the dead" -- George Robinson: blues, from "The book of the dead" -- Alloy, from "The book of the dead" -- The dam, from "The book of the dead" -- A flashing cliff -- Homage to literature -- Lover as fox -- The drowning young man -- Boy with his hair cut short -- Time exposures, from "Night-Music" -- Adventures, Midnight-II., from "Night-Music" -- Woman and emblems: Woman and bird ; The birthday ; Women and music -- III. From A TURNING WIND -- Reading time: 1 minute 20 seconds -- Target practice -- Nuns in the wind --Democritus laughed, from "Correspondences" -- Correspondences, from "Correspondences" -- Gibbs -- Ryder -- Chapman -- Ann Burlak -- Ives -- IV. From BEAST IN VIEW 1944 -- Ajanta: I. The journey ; II. The cave ; III. Les tendresses bestiales ; IV. Black blood ; V. The broken world -- The meeting -- Drunken girl -- Who in one lifetime -- Love and its doors and windows -- Long past Moncada -- A game of ball -- Darkness music -- Song -- V. From ELEGIES 1938-1945 -- First elegy, Rotten Lake -- Second elegy, Age of magicians -- Third elegy, The fear of form -- Fourth elegy, The refugees -- Fifth elegy, A turning wind -- Sixth elegy, River elegy -- Seventh elegy, Dream-singing elegy -- Eighth elegy, Children's elegy -- Ninth elegy, The antagonists -- Tenth elegy, Elegy in joy -- VI. From THE GREEN WAVE 1947 -- Water night -- Eyes of night-time -- Salamander -- The motive of all of it -- Green limits -- Mrs. Walpurga -- Foghorn in horror -- Summer, the Sacramento -- Easter eve -- Nine poems for the unborn child -- VII. From ONE LIFE 1955 -- Are you born?-1 -- Fields where we slept -- Power never dominion -- Phaneron -- The Red Bridge, San Francisco -- "In your time, there have been those" -- "No one ever walking this our only earth" -- "Murmurs from the earth of this land" -- Are you born-II -- VIII. From BODY OF WAKING 1958 -- Haying before storm -- A birth -- Mother Garden's round -- After their quarrel -- Night feeding -- The watchers -- F. O. M. -- The sixth night: waking -- The birth of Venus -- Suite for Lord Timothy Dexter: I. 162 ; II. How to impress Massachusetts ; III. Three nights I dreamed ; IV. Kings and contemporaries ; V. The pickle; the temple ; VI. The kind of woman ; VII. Guessing time -- Voices of waking -- Body of waking -- IX. WATERLILLY FIRE 1962 -- The speaking tree -- To enter that rhythm where the self is lost -- The way out, from "Akiba" -- For a Mexican painter -- A song of another tribe -- Song -- Waterlily fire: I. The burning ; II. The island ; III. Journey changes ; IV. Fragile ; V. The long body. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Radicalism in literature.
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Protest poetry, American.
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Silicosis -- Poetry.
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Gauley Bridge (W. Va.) -- Poetry.
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Hawks Nest Tunnel (W. Va.) -- Poetry.
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Protest poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst01079831
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Radicalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01087035
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Silicosis. (OCoLC)fst01118715
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West Virginia -- Gauley Bridge.
(OCoLC)fst01209676
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West Virginia -- Hawks Nest Tunnel.
(OCoLC)fst01244693
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980. Waterlily fire. New York : Macmillan, 1962 (OCoLC)587110159 |
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Online version: Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980. Waterlily fire. New York : Macmillan, 1962 (OCoLC)613054220 |
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