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The Book of the Dead is a long narrative poem written by Muriel Rukeyser, appearing in her collection US 1. Published in 1938, the poem deals with the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, also known as the Gauley Tunnel Tragedy, in which predominately poor, migrant mine workers in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia succumbed to death caused by the ...
Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980) 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". One of her most powerful pieces was a group of poems titled The Book ...
Absalom was the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the novel. Like the Biblical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events. Absalom kills and murders a man, and also meets an untimely death.
Louis Rukeyser. Louis Richard Rukeyser (January 30, 1933 – May 2, 2006) was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television. He was the host of two television series, Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser, and Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street. He also published two financial newsletters, Louis ...
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Indra Bahadur Rai (1927–2018, India, f) Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928, India, nf) Stevan Raičković (1928–2007, Yugoslavia/Serbia, p/nf) Zahir Raihan (1935–1972, India/Bangladesh, f/d) Mohamed Said Raihani (born 1968, Morocco, f/nf) Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836, Austria, d) Allen Raine (1836–1908, Wales, f), pseudonym of Anne Adalisa ...
Piedra de Sol. The Aztec sun stone after which the poem is named, and used on the cover of some editions. Piedra de Sol ("Sunstone") is the poem written by Octavio Paz in 1957 that helped launch his international reputation. [1] In the presentation speech of his Nobel Prize in 1990, Sunstone was later praised as "one of the high points of Paz's ...
All the Way Home | When A Black Family Moves Next Door is a 1957 documentary short film directed by well-known documentary film director Lee R. Bobker and produced by Nathan Zucker. Shot in black and white, the film was written by famed writer and poet Muriel Rukeyser. Critical essayist Kenneth Rexroth considered Rukeyser the greatest poet of ...