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Muriel Rukeyser reads In Our Time

“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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