Interchange – How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 11:03 p.m.

Today we feature the radical work of Muriel Rukeyser, whose poetics treatise, The Life of Poetry, first published in 1949, can be called an anti-Fascist manifesto. We struggle at times to place Rukeyser inside our understanding of politics and poetry as she herself struggled to not be placed – like Thoreau, she did not wish …