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The Orgy
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Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) is one of our country's most influential yet neglected writers. She published fifteen collections of poetry, plays, translations, children's books, and several works of nonfiction. Her toys of fame include the Yale Younger Poets Award, the Copernicus Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Shelley Memorial Award. From 1975-1976, she served as president of P.E.N. American Center.

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In this sensual documentary, the reader is swept from observer into participant in a 'whole new world.'--Adrienne Rich

Beauty and power and imagination.--Joseph Heller

A true delight.--Kay Boyle

The Orgy is about the author's own psychological transformation as the place colors and shapes her interior life.--The Washington Post

The Orgy has enlarged the meaning of 'luminous.'--The American Scholar

Brilliant; full of vivid language and people half embarrassed, half excited, swept up in a mixture of Guinness and the sheer glamour of a ritual which has come from wilder, pre-Christian times.--The Observer

The Orgy is about the author's own psychological transformation as the place colors and shapes her interior life.--The Washington Post

Haunting. The author may have left a few sore bones behind her in Ireland, where we do not relish having the exact nature and extent of our festivities described in cold print. But she has an honest and inquiring mind. She didn't agree with the Irish woman who thought that, after America, everything in Ireland must look shabby. No, said Muriel Rukeyser, Ireland looks real. This American poet has a quick eye, too, for the things I find I love: the moon over Dublin and the mythic Post Office; the eternal fisherman casting a fly over the River Laune; the fuchsia blossoms that are the 'tears of Kerry.--The New York Times Book Review

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