History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 - Lowney, John, 1957-; ProQuest (Firm) (Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006)
The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's -- Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South -- Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca -- A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend -- The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
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Keywords: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Right and left (Political science) in literature; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; Electronic books