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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 15
Died: 1980
Died: February 12
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Poet
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Outrage
Poems
Possibility
Poetry

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