ID: 8804  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    untermeyer2 Format: Medium: Letter Extent: 2 pp. Identifier: Source: Title: [Rukeyser - poetic discovery of the year] Subtitle: Alternative: [Untermeyer to Rukeyser] Agents: Creator: Untermeyer, Louis Role: Name: Created: 1936-03-31 Date: in/on: Language: English Rights: William L. Rukeyser (Davis,California) Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library Coverage: Place: Time: Description: Typed letter Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: magazines Keywords: leftish Keywords: poetry Keywords: New Theatre Keywords: periodicals Keywords: Gregory, Horace Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Keywords: Untermeyer, Louis Keywords: Wilson, Theodore Keywords: Zaturenska, Marya Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, magazines) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, leftish) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, poetry) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, New Theatre) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, periodicals) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Gregory, Horace) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Untermeyer, Louis) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Wilson, Theodore) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Zaturenska, Marya) Comment: Among her manuscripts and correspondence, Rukeyser kept the page of the Vogue issue dated May 1936, where her photograph appeared together with the ones of some people “who have made reputation this past year”. Her photo is accompanied by a caption, that, in a way, echoes Untermeyer’s words: “Muriel Rukeyser whose volume of ragged poetry Theory of Flight was the critics’ winter delight, is twenty two, a graduate of Vassar and an editor of “New Theatre”. She is now doing a statistical survey of medical science and finishing her new work U. S. 1”. “A statistical survey of medical science” is obviously a reference to her research into silicosis at the Gauley Bridge ( West Virginia) mining disaster that was to become the subject of her “Book of the Dead”. U. S. 1 is the title of her collection of poems, published in 1938, which includes “The Book of the Dead” and “Mediterranean” ( [:464;464:] ).