For 10 points, identify this American poet of "To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century."
This poet wrote a single novel, a fictionalized account of a visit to the Puck Fair goat festival in Kerry, Ireland, titled The Orgy. This poet based one collection on an investigation conducted into incidents of silicosis among West Virginia miners. This poet declared "This is the cripple's hour on" the titular boulevard in the poem "Seventh Avenue," and described windows that "hold photography of the drowned faces the fat the unemployed" in a poem describing the reaction to the 1929 stock market crash, "Paper Anniversary." The Hawk's Nest disaster inspired this poet's collection The Book of the Dead, and broke through in 1935 with the publication of her first volume, Theory of Flight. This poet wrote that the title condition of one of her poems was equivalent to being "offered a gift," which was torment but whose refusal would result in "death of the spirit" in a poem that was adopted into the (*) Reconstructionist liturgy. For 10 points, identify this American poet of "To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century."
This poet wrote a single novel, a fictionalized account of a visit to the Puck Fair goat festival in Kerry, Ireland, titled The Orgy.
Muriel {Rukeyser}