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Breaking Open

The first part of the book contains poems that deal with knowledge, promises, aging, death, and the risks of being alive, being human, and being a woman. Her poems then move directly to the major concerns of our cities and governments, of our people and our goals. The last part of the book opens with a long and lyrical series of Eskimo songs, which Ms. Rukeyser translated with the anthropologist Paul Radin. She then moves on to what are her most unusual and ambitious new poems. These are full of dreams and nightmares, love and steel, wood and fires, passion and earth.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 135
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780394486963
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1973