Muriel Rukeyser:Poems

Works

Rukeyser's original collections of poetry
  • Theory of Flight. Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet. New Haven: Yale Uni. Press, 1935. Won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1935.
  • Mediterranean. Writers and Artists Committee, Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1938.
  • U.S. 1: Poems. Covici, Friede, 1938.
  • A Turning Wind: Poems. Viking, 1939.
  • The Soul and Body of John Brown. Privately printed, 1940. With etchings by Rudolph von Ripper.[10]
  • Wake Island. Doubleday, 1942.
  • Beast in View. Doubleday, 1944.
  • The Green Wave: Poems. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. Includes translations of Octavio Paz poems and rari.
  • Orpheus. Centaur Press, 1949. With the drawing "Orpheus" by Picasso.
  • Elegies. New Directions, 1949.
  • Selected Poems. New Directions, 1951.
  • Body of Waking: Poems. NY: Harper, 1958. Includes translated poems of Octavio Paz.
  • Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962. NY: Macmillan, 1962.
  • The Outer Banks. Santa Barbara CA: Unicorn, 1967. 2nd rev. ed., 1980.
  • The Speed of Darkness: Poems. NY: Random House, 1968.
  • 29 Poems. Rapp & Whiting, 1972.
  • Breaking Open: New Poems. Random House, 1973.
  • The Gates: Poems. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Fiction by Rukeyser
  • Savage Coast : A Novel. Feminist Press, 2013.[11]
Plays by Rukeyser
  • The Middle of the Air. Produced in Iowa City, IA, 1945.
  • The Colors of the Day: A Celebration of the Vassar Centennial. Produced in Poughkeepsie, NY, at Vassar College, June 10, 1961.
  • Houdini. Produced in Lenox, MA, at Lenox Arts Center, July 3, 1973.[12] Published as Houdini: A Musical, Paris Press, 2002.[13]
Film written by Rukeyser
  • All the Way Home. Produced in New York City, NY, 1957.
Children's books
  • Come Back, Paul. Harper, 1955.[14]
  • I Go Out. Harper, 1961. Illustrated by Leonard Kessler.[15]
  • Bubbles. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.[16]
  • Mazes. Simon & Schuster, 1970. Photography by Milton Charles.[17]
  • More Night. Harper & Row, 1981. Illustrated by Symeon Shimin.[18]
Memoirs by Rukeyser
  • The Orgy: An Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation. London: Andre Deutsch, 1965; NY: Pocket Books, 1966; Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 1997.[19]
Works of criticism by Rukeyser
  • The Life of Poetry. NY: Current Books, 1949; Morrow, 1974; Paris Press, 1996.[20]
Biographies by Rukeyser
  • Willard Gibbs: American Genius, 1942. Reprinted by the Ox Bow Press, Woodbridge CT. Biography of Josiah Willard Gibbs, physicist.[15]
  • One Life. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Biography of Wendell Willkie.
  • The Traces of Thomas Hariot. NY: Random House, 1971. Biography of Thomas Hariot.
Translations by Rukeyser
  • Selected Poems of Octavio Paz. Indiana University Press, 1963. Rev. ed. published as Early Poems 1935-1955, New Directions, 1973.
  • Sun Stone. Octavio Paz. New Directions, 1963.
  • Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelöf. With Leif Sjöberg. Twayne, 1967.
  • Three Poems. Gunnar Ekelöf. T. Williams, 1967.
  • Uncle Eddie's Moustache. Bertolt Brecht. Pantheon Books, 1974.
  • A Molna Elegy: Metamorphoses. Gunnar Ekelöf. With Leif Sjöberg. 2 volumes. Unicorn Press, 1984.
Edited collections of Rukeyser's works
  • The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. McGraw, 1978.
  • Out of Silence: Selected Poems. Edited by Kate Daniels. Triquarterly Books, 1992.
  • A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Norton, 1994.
  • The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

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