Ripening: Selected Work

Still the only comprehensive collection of the work of Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996), and the only biographical account of her long and complex activist and literary life, the volume includes fiction, journalism, poetry, and journal-writing. The New York Times said that the volume inspires belief in the power of a writer - and a woman - to prevail against poverty, persecution, and public neglect. Kirkus said Le Sueur’s journalism of the 1930’s (corollates) to Dorothea Lange’s unsparing yet abundantly piteous photos of the same era.