Posthumous Revival for Activist Poet

"Known mainly for her political protest poems of the 1930s, Muriel Rukeyser was attacked throughout her career: by the Left for not being Left enough, and by the Right for being too leftist, by New Critics for writing poems that referred to the social context, by the House Un-American Activities Committee for being a "concealed communist," by Marxists for not believing the party line. She just could not win... more