1. Marilyn Jean Buck was an American Marxist, feminist poet, and anti-war, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist activist, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brink's robbery, and the 1983 US Senate bombing.
Marilyn Buck was released on July 15,2010, less than a month before her death at age 62 from cancer.
Marilyn Buck's family was active in the civil rights movement.
Louis Marilyn Buck opposed segregation at St Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, picketed, and harshly criticized the bishop.
Louis Marilyn Buck returned to his veterinarian career, from which he had entered the clergy, to support his family.
Marilyn Buck attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin.
Marilyn Buck subsequently earned a master's degree in Poetics from New College.
At the University of Texas, Marilyn Buck was involved in organizing against the Vietnam War, as well as anti-racist activities.
Marilyn Buck joined Students for a Democratic Society and worked with Austin's underground newspaper, The Rag.
In 1967, Marilyn Buck moved to Chicago where she edited SDS' New Left Notes and attended an SDS teacher-organizer school.
Marilyn Buck subsequently returned to San Francisco where she worked with Third World Newsreel in outreach in support of Native American and Palestinian sovereignty and against US intervention in Iran and Vietnam and in solidarity with the Black liberation movement.
In 1973, Marilyn Buck was convicted on two counts of purchasing ammunition using false identification and sentenced to ten years in prison.
In 1977 Marilyn Buck was given a furlough from prison and went underground instead of returning.
In 1983, Marilyn Buck was recaptured and convicted of participating in Shakur's escape.
Marilyn Buck allegedly drove one of the getaway cars, as well as helping to obtain a safe house and weapons.
Marilyn Buck published her poetry in journals, anthologies, a chapbook, and an audio CD.
Marilyn Buck received a PEN American Center prize for poetry in 2001.
Marilyn Buck's poems appeared in the anthologies Hauling Up the Morning, Wall Tappings, Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, Seeds of Fire, and in her chapbook, Rescue the Word.
Marilyn Buck's poems appear on the audio CD Wild Poppies.
Marilyn Buck translated and introduced Cristina Peri Rossi's poetry book State of Exile, which was Number 58 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series.
Marilyn Buck died at home in Brooklyn on August 3,2010, after a long battle with uterine cancer, having been released from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell on July 15 of that year.