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"At first "Savage Coast" is a train-of-fools comedy; later, it's a cross-cultural love story Hemingway would have envied for its suddenness." --New York Times Book Review

"Rejected by her publisher in 1937, poet Rukeyser's newly discovered autobiographical novel is both an absorbing read and an important contribution to 20th-century history.... Ironically, the factors that led to the novel's rejection--Rukeyser's avant-garde impressionistic prose style, alternating with realistic scenes of brutal death and a few descriptions of sexual congress--are what make the book appealing...

The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women's intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement. Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a deeply committed thinker, her accessible but...

The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women's intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement. Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a deeply committed thinker, her accessible but...

An Open Heart: The Power to Forgive is the third book in a riveting trilogy written by Muriel Kennedy, a licensed clinical psychologist. While the first book, Heart and Soul: Learning to Communicate Through Thick and Thin, capitalizes on the relationship Jamaal, a young adolescent, shares with his mother and grandmother, the second book, Speak to My Heart: Each One...Reach One, focuses on peer influence, and Jamal's affiliation with Trevon, his best friend. The current text, An Open Heart: The Power to Forgive, introduces the reader to Jamaal's father, who battles with the fear of being...