Savage Coast: A Novel

The poet's newly discovered novel of reporting on the Spanish Civil War "is both an absorbing read and an important contribution to 20th-century history" (Publishers Weekly).

As a young reporter in 1936, the pioneering poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Barcelona to witness the first days of the Spanish Civil War. She turned this experience into an autobiographical novel so forward thinking—both in its lyrical prose and its frank depictions of violence and sexuality—t...