Muriel Rukeyser - Beast in View

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1946. Second Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in black cloth over boards, white line-drawing to front cover. Printed, illustrated dust wrapper, moderately worn and with chipping along top edge, price-clipped, and with Brodart protector. The poet, according to another publisher "is a Left Winger" politically and a revolutionary. Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980), according to her Wikipedia entry, "was an American poet, essayist, biographer, and political activist. She wrote poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her 'exact generation.'" Her collection, The Book of the Dead (1938) was an homage to all of the miners who lost their lives to silicosis in an industrial disaster. 98 pp. including Note from the Author.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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