{"title":"Muriel Rukeyser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuriel Rukeyser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1913–1980) was an American writer and activist. Her first book of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheory of Flight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1934. She went on to publish more than a dozen other books of poetry, including the collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eU.S. 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in which her influential narrative poem about the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, “The Book of the Dead,” first appeared. In addition to her poetry, she wrote several children’s books, a number of stage and screenplays, a novel, a memoir, a book of criticism, and three biographies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/muriel-rukeyser.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}