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Muriel Rukeyser — Part 1
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7 gation which represents she brate2 Lifts of enforced regimen tation and national
- Wlavery, and she is against war, econseription and the foretag of others to
eri Sha se bemapes eaten eta cit to. Sepone. ‘EET ae and Preserve eivil
rties. 7h. soy ;
Time nagatine fa Decenber 16, 1955 made a review of her poend,
"Theory of Flight®, and in hie preface " SRPEEW YIRCENT BENET discussed her
ae sesentially an urban poet and the article goes on further to etate she te
@ leftewlager end a revolutionary, but her poetry contains ne direst sppenle
&, the proletariat aad her eratels of revolt: are imaginative. -
ee 7 “me Ha tar day. Review af ‘Uteratare on Sealy 31, 1937, ender an article of
g “artiet as @ Proletarian by ALAN CAIMER here Listed the ploture of MURIEL RURRYSE)
with a caption undernaath "Proletarian Fost". The article goes on to state
‘that a gaunbex of young protagoniate eought refoge.in the JOHN ESED CLUES and
the orgenization, Like so. Viterary societies, coneleted of minority of
young wen. of letter and. « majority of fruatrated anthors and amateur intellestos’
<Eovevar, later theses sane intellectuals aiscorered that the proletarian arta
“were chained to a political movement and et @iie time how wae literary slncerity
‘possible, Ja @ result of this connection with the Communistic Party, people
_ Geoovered the Anconaietancies. Da athe eneoat ng: f and_ sown. o hal dropped. out hd the
cantante ceaetnantitieititt j of the WPA office, S00 Park Avenne, New Tork,
o d Wiel’ records to ascertain if the applicant was « mexber
of the Cound ttee tor the Art Projects, Writers Divielon, with negative reels.
A oheck of the literature on the Congrese of American Soviet Friendship shows
the applicaat wee dated as @ sponuor of hte organisation. in 1942.
ore Confidential Inforsant. x, “ whese Adentity” ‘te ‘known te the Boreas,
.@tatee that the applicants knowa to have been active ts communistic literature
cirdlas ae a writer and is exployed by the Office of War Information. Subject
ae Listed in the Oxford Book ef. Amerionn Literatare. as 8 laf tewinger post.
wv . epecte Sead reported on Decender 10, 1941 that the appli-
,oant was ileted in the Third Consress of American Weiters, w ren Jone 2, 3,
j ‘, i939 and was a elgner of the FRed Decade’, and fu > thet of the
2 sigusre for this 1959 call, at least 14 were geges o be seubers of
the Gommniet Party, while othere wars considered to have eoummate tis leanings.
& check of the voting Let wt Borough Hall, 400 Broome Street, Hew
Tork, Hew York, indloated that in 1936 the applicant regiatered ae a voter,
tut did not affiliate with any party. dn 1942 the applicant registered as a
voter in the dverions Labor Party. She files of th Poves af Greater é:
. few Tork were checked by Special Employes igen ® i which ghoved, >
* -galy one eredit inquiry aad no other aredit inforzstios, ine files of the Rew
* York OGity Police Departmen’ were. Shaciee’ oF pedir Agent 3 Sunes. Amon, with
eer: reealta, pel y ets at Seve. ; |
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