The writer in America. [motion picture]

"People think it's easy to make a poem ..." When she talks about the obstacles a poet faces, Muriel Rukeyser mentions misunderstanding--misunderstanding from oneself, one's family, the audience. Rukeyser strives to overcome these and more recent barriers to her poetry, two disabling strokes. In a life filled with the making of poems, she writes, she rewrites, she reads extensively from her works, and she encourages aspiring poets

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