The advantage of picking up a used copy of collected #poems are the intros. by scholars. Learned this about Muriel Rukeyser today 🍂📖
“We need look no further than the FBI file of more than 100 pages focused on Rukeyser, the agency's labeling of her as a 'concealed Communist’ (Dayton 12), or the House Un-American Activities Committee's censure of Sarah Lawrence College in November 1958 for employing her (Folsom 1) to appreciate the international reputation she earned as a powerful voice against the violence of war, poverty, racism…” 