The Speed of Darkness by Muriel Rukeyser from i am every woman poem Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 30 sec
✓ Published: 16-Jun-2013

Description:
I had never heard Muriel Rukeyser's voice before I began to make a vimeo of her reading her poem The Speed of Darkness, a Caedmon recording. I had heard Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's voice, however, and while I edited the poem, listening to it over and over, I kept thinking it was Justice Sotomayor who was reading to me and not Muriel Rukeyser. I checked and found that both women were born and reared in the Bronx, although forty years apart, Rukeyser born in 1913 and Sotomayor in 1954;