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...future of collegiate verse in this country. Surely the University of Hard Knocks has gone farther than the two poetic stops of last century: love and nature? Practice among the undergraduate would seem to give a negative answer. But hold! Poets like Clark Mills, T. C. Wilson, Muriel Rukeyser, Alfred Hayes, and Kerker Quinn show signs of significant cerebration...
THEORY OF FLIGHT-Muriel Rukeyser-Yale University Press...
THEORY OF FLIGHT-Muriel Rukcyser -Yale University Press...
...Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York, attended Vassar, Columbia and the Roosevelt School of the Air, where she gathered material for the title poem in Theory of Flight. In his preface. Stephen Vincent Benet describes her as essentially an urban poet, her mind "fed on the quick jerk of the newsreel, the hard lights in the sky, the long deserted night-street, the take-off of the plane from the ground." The book contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque...
...addition to the regular orchestra, a singing trie will be featured, and also lovely Muriel Sherman, who is positively guaranteed to please the chilliest male...