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Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

~Muriel Rukeyser

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One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

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The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.'

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Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 15th, 1913

Died: February 12th, 1980

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