Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness - of the Scottsbo[...]

"At first "Savage Coast" is a train-of-fools comedy; later, it's a cross-cultural love story Hemingway would have envied for its suddenness." --"New York Times Book Review"
"Rejected by her publisher in 1937, poet Rukeyser's newly discovered autobiographical novel is both an absorbing read and a[...]