History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
c2006.
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| Series: | Contemporary North American poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.