History, memory, and the literary left [electronic resource] : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by John Lowney.
Series: Contemporary North American poetry seriesPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.Description: xii, 287 pISBN:- 1587295083 (alk. paper)
- 9781587295089
- 811/.509358 22
- PS310.P6 L68 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
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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