Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) is one of our country's most
influential yet neglected writers. She published fifteen
collections of poetry, plays, translations, children's books, and
several works of nonfiction. Her toys of fame include the Yale
Younger Poets Award, the Copernicus Award from the Academy of Arts
and Letters, and the Shelley Memorial Award. From 1975-1976, she
served as president of P.E.N. American Center.
In this sensual documentary, the reader is swept from observer into
participant in a 'whole new world.'--Adrienne Rich
Beauty and power and imagination.--Joseph Heller
A true delight.--Kay Boyle
The Orgy is about the author's own psychological transformation as
the place colors and shapes her interior life.--The Washington
Post
The Orgy has enlarged the meaning of 'luminous.'--The American
Scholar
Brilliant; full of vivid language and people half embarrassed, half
excited, swept up in a mixture of Guinness and the sheer glamour of
a ritual which has come from wilder, pre-Christian times.--The
Observer
The Orgy is about the author's own psychological transformation as
the place colors and shapes her interior life.--The Washington
Post
Haunting. The author may have left a few sore bones behind her in
Ireland, where we do not relish having the exact nature and extent
of our festivities described in cold print. But she has an honest
and inquiring mind. She didn't agree with the Irish woman who
thought that, after America, everything in Ireland must look
shabby. No, said Muriel Rukeyser, Ireland looks real. This American
poet has a quick eye, too, for the things I find I love: the moon
over Dublin and the mythic Post Office; the eternal fisherman
casting a fly over the River Laune; the fuchsia blossoms that are
the 'tears of Kerry.--The New York Times Book Review
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