Muriel Rukeyser

1. Believe that we bloom upon this stalk of time (2:27): MP3 [preceded by Lee Anderson's general introduction]
2. Ajanta (11:43): MP3 [begins with part 1, "The Journey"]
3. The Return (2:02): MP3
4. Divining Water (2:54): MP3
5. After Their Quarrel (2:22): MP3 ["very much a poem of adolescence"]
6. The Young Girl of the Mississippi Valley (1:53): MP3
7. A Birth (2:27): MP3
8. Q&A Discussion, part 1 [hosted by Lee Anderson] (31:12): MP3
Q&A Discussion, part 2 [hosted by Anderson] (2:54): MP3
on prosody (7:52): MP3
on the San Francisco Poets (1:40): MP3
on the relationship between linguistics and poetry (2:03): MP3
on contemporary prosodists (2:16): MP3
on the role of the poet (3:55): MP3
on the relationship between the poet and the mathematician (4:36): MP3
on how other art forms feed into her poetry (0:47): MP3
on the Pacific Coast and New York poetry scenes (7:59): MP3
on the difficulty of the Beats' attitude toward women (2:51): MP3
9. Suite for Lord Timothy Dexter (23:50): MP3 [about "an American eccentric" who showed "that the business proverbs were way off"]
10. Are You Born? (3:40): MP3 [in two parts; about 2-year-old children at the Vassar Family Institute; this work is "the framework for a large group of poems"]
11. Body of Waking (18:23): MP3
12. Speed, We Say (2:01): MP3 [a poem that starts with a jet plane across the sky and ends with a love poem; it is "bound by the image of speed"]
13. The Birth of Venus (2:14): MP3 ["the myth...as we scarcely ever hear it in school"]
14. Murmurs from the earth of this land (2:33): MP3 [this poem is from a group of poems enclosed with a series called "Are You Born?"]
15. The Sixth Night: Waking (1:10): MP3 [referring to the 6th night of creation, the moment of man and woman]
16. In your time, there have been those who spoke clearly (4:00): MP3 [also a poem enclosed with the "Are You Born?" series in One Life]

• Complete recording, Reel 1 (29:10): MP3
• Complete recording, Reel 2 (31:31): MP3
• Complete recording, Reel 3 (30:28): MP3
• Complete recording, Reel 4 (30:53): MP3

Special thanks to Nancy Kuhl, William Rukeyser, and the estate of Muriel Rukeyser for making these recordings available.

Miscellaneous Recordings (Locations and Dates Unknown)

• Despisals (1:34): MP3
• In Our Time (0:21): MP3
• The Speed of Darkness (3:55): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2011 Muriel Rukeyser. Used with permission of the estate of Muriel Rukeyser. Distributed by PennSound.