Bibliography
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POETRY
- Theory of Flight, foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet, Yale University Press, 1935, reprinted, AMS Press, 1971.
- Mediterranean, Writers and Artists Committee, Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1938.
- U.S. One, Covici, Friede, 1938.
- A Turning Wind: Poems, Viking, 1939.
- The Soul and Body of John Brown, privately printed, 1940.
- Wake Island, Doubleday, 1942.
- Beast in View, Doubleday, 1944.
- The Green Wave (contains a section of translated poems of Octavio Paz and Rari), Doubleday, 1948.
- Orpheus (with the drawing "Orpheus," by Picasso), Centaur Press, 1949.
- Elegies, New Directions, 1949.
- Selected Poems, New Directions, 1951.
- Body of Waking (contains a section of translated poems of Paz), Harper, 1958.
- Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962 (including the group of poems entitled "The Speaking Tree"), Macmillan, 1962.
- The Outer Banks, Unicorn Press, 1967 , 2nd revised edition, 1980.
- The Speed of Darkness, Random, 1968.
- Mazes, photography by Milton Charles, Simon & Schuster, 1970.
- Twenty-nine Poems, Rapp & Whiting, 1972.
- Breaking Open: New Poems (contains translations of Eskimo songs), Random House, 1973.
- The Gates: Poems, McGraw, 1976.
- The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, McGraw, 1978.
- Out of Silence: Selected Poems, edited by Kate Daniels, Triquarterly Books (Evanston, IL), 1992.
BIOGRAPHY
- Willard Gibbs, Doubleday, 1942.
- One Life (biography of Wendell Willkie in poetry, prose, and documents), Simon & Schuster, 1957.
- The Traces of Thomas Hariot, Random House, 1971.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
- (Self-illustrated) Come Back, Paul, Harper, 1955.
- I Go Out, pictures by Leonard Kessler, Harper, 1962.
- Bubbles, edited by Donald Barr, illustrated by Jeri Quinn, Harcourt, 1967.
- More Night, illustrated by Symeon Shimin, Harper, 1981.
UNPUBLISHED PLAYS
- The Middle of the Air, produced in Iowa City, IA, 1945.
- The Colors of the Day, produced in Poughkeepsie, NY, at Vassar College, June 10, 1961.
- Houdini, produced in Lenox, MA, at Lenox Arts Center, July 3, 1973.
TRANSLATOR
- (From the Spanish; with others) Paz, Selected Poems of Octavio Paz , Indiana University Press, 1963, revised edition published as Early Poems 1935-1955, New Directions, 1973.
- Paz, Sun Stone, New Directions, 1963.
- (With Leif Sjoeberg) Gunnar Ekeloef, Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekeloef , Twayne, 1967.
- Ekeloef, Three Poems, T. Williams, 1967.
- Also translator of Bertolt Brecht's Uncle Eddie's Moustache, 1974.
- (With Sjoeberg) Ekeloef, A Molna Elegy: Metamorphoses, two volumes, Unicorn Press, 1984.
OTHER
- The Life of Poetry, Current Books, 1949 , reprinted, Morrow, 1974, with introduction by Jane Cooper, Paris Press, 1996.
- The Orgy (a three-day journal), Coward, 1965.
- The Poetry and Voice of Muriel Rukeyser (recording), Caedmon, 1977.
- A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, Norton, 1994.
Also author of film scripts "A Place to Live" and "All the Way Home." Contributor to periodicals, including Nation, New Republic, Poetry, and Saturday Review.
