Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection

This study of twentieth-century American poet Muriel Rukeyser explores the multiple avenues of her 'poetics of connection' to reveal a profound engagement with the equally intertextual documentary genre.

Author: Catherine Gander
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 01/04/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780748670536

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013

About the Author

Catherine Gander is Associate Professor of American Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of several journal articles and chapters on Don DeLillo, American poetry and the interarts. She is the author of Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection (EUP, 2013; winner of the IAAS book award) and Extending the Document: Contemporary Transmedial Poetics (forthcoming). She is co-editor and contributor to Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (2016) as well as editor of special journal issues on Muriel Rukeyser and on the American Imagetext. She is the Chair (2019-) of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS).