Description
In these elegies, Muriel Rukeyser meets the aftermath of war and the moral exhaustion it leaves behind, refusing consolation that doesn’t also demand change. With fierce lyric intensity and visionary reach, she traces how failures of imagination and human betrayal turn public catastrophe into a shared, ongoing nightmare—then insists on the possibility of collective dreaming as a form of survival. Across the poems, grief becomes a catalyst: the speaker mourns what has been lost while pressing toward a world remade through attention, solidarity, and action. Rukeyser’s signature blend of political witness, urgent imagery, and expansive hope makes these poems feel both historically grounded and startlingly contemporary.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions
Published Sep 24, 2013
64 pages
ISBN: 9780811221061
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Elegies by Muriel Rukeyser.