From The Library of America, three new titles in the exciting series that takes a fresh look at America's most enduring poetry. National Poetry Month brings three new titles--brilliant selections of John Greenleaf Whittier, Kenneth Fearing, and Muriel Rukeyser--as The Library of America continues its major new undertaking: a comprehensive series presenting the most significant American poetry, selected and introduced by today's most distinguished poets and critics. Elegantly designed and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of American poetic accomplishment in compact and attractive editions, including volumes devoted to single poets and anthologies exploring particular themes, genres, and eras. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) published her first book--the powerfully experimental Theory of Flight--at age twenty-two, and went on to an adventurous and prolific career as poet, translator, and political activist. Her expansive energies sought a poetry in which politics, geography, sexuality, mythology, and autobiography could find fused and fluid expression. From her early, brilliantly cinematic "Poem Out of Childhood" through excerpts from her long wartime "Letter to the Front" to her late "Resurrection of the Right Side," written after her stroke, this selection represents the many sides and selves of a major poet.