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The American Poetry Review (Digital)

The American Poetry Review (Digital)

1 Issue, November/December 2022

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THE SONG STARTS IN MY BODY

On Muriel Rukeyser and the forms of poetry
I. I wanted to see her body. I’m aware it sounds strange, even lurid. What I wanted was to see her read her poetry, and her body reading it. Something about Rukeyser’s writing made me feel that she was at home in her flesh, and I wanted to see her loving her body as she read her poems. Because I have felt so exiled in my body, so at war with it, I have hungered for models of being at home and at peace in one’s skin. Years ago, I met a musicologist who was an expert in analyzing how classical music compositions moved the body—as if the composition were not just a script for music but also for the dance of the body. I wondered about the dance her poems would make. I…
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