History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by John Lowney

Author: Lowney, John, 1957-
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2006]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Physical Description: xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series

Contemporary North American poetry series

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.

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ISBN

1587295083 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.

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