"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" Muriel Rukeyser asked in her poem "Käthe Kollwitz." She answered: "The world would split open." In this clip, Rukeyser, who died in 1980, reads the poem "In Our Time."
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jeffreyvperry replied on Permalink
Our Time
Yes
Tosca replied on Permalink
Rukeyser
"Yes" - exactly.
EJ replied on Permalink
Muriel Rukeyser ("In Our Time")
Bravo! Absolutely, 'yes'!