I am looking for the author and name of a poem from which this line
comes "she sang beyong the genius of the seas".  I think it might be
Adrienne Rich or Muriel Rukyser

Hello maeve59-ga,

You've got the line almost exactly right -- it is actually "She sang
beyond the genius of the sea."  It is the first line of "The Idea of
Order at Key West", by Wallace Stevens.  You can read the full text,
as well as hear a reading by the author, on this page:

"The Idea of Order at Key West", by Wallace Stevens
The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1727

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

"she sang beyond the genius"
"she sang beyond the genius of the sea the water"