The topic of this paper is Meridel Le Sueur. Most of her published work is now out of print. But we should remember that she could often find at least one publisher willing to risk publishing her books, even during the great depression and the darkest days of House Un-American Activities Committee terrorism. This suggests to me how much she could tap the conscience of others, even a mainstream publisher, and insist that it act, despite the dangers involved. Meridel Le Sueur wrote (and rewrote) that she "was born at the beginning of the swiftest and bloodiest century." And she was: in January of 1900.
