ID: 8792  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    Dusk to Dusk Format: Medium: Letter Extent: 1 p. Identifier: Source: Title: [John Wheelwright to Muriel Rukeyser] Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Wheelwright, John Role: Name: Created: date unknown Date: in/on: Language: English Rights: William L. Rukeyser (Davis, California) Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library Coverage: Place: Time: Description: Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: Housatonic Keywords: revolutionary Keywords: poetry Keywords: Modernism Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Keywords: Wheelwright, John Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Housatonic) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, revolutionary) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, poetry) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, Modernism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Wheelwright, John) Comment: Although this letter is undated, we can suppose that it was written before September 1940. In fact, we know that when John Wheelwright (his friends called him Jack or Wheels) was struck and killed by a drunken driver in his native Boston, in September of 1940, he was preparing the manuscript of his fourth collection, to be called Dusk to Dusk. The poem Wheelwright refers to, at the beginning of this letter, is entitled “The inception of the Cross”(Rock and Shell, 1933). The friendship and correspondence between Rukeyser and Wheelwright seem to have begun in 1932, at the time when Rukeyser started the publication of Housatonic (record [:466;466:] ). His poem “Anathema, Maranatha”, included in Political Self-Portrait (1940), is dedicated to her.