Muriel Rukeyser — Theory of Flight

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1936. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated Second Printing. Lightly sunned brown cloth, lightly stained at front panel top edge, top edge, dissipating quickly, not intruding into text. This was Muriel Rukeyser?s first book, comprised in this case of Poem Out of Childhood (15 poems), Theory of Flight (17 poems), The Blood Is Justified (14 poems). The Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet notes that the poet "is a Left Winger" politically and a revolutionary. Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980), according to her Wikipedia entry, "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.'" Her collection, The Book of the Dead (1938) was an homage to all of the miners who lost their lives to silicosis in an industrial disaster. 118 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good