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Author Lowney, John, 1957-

Title History, memory, and the literary left [electronic resource] : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by John Lowney.

Imprint Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

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Description xii, 287 p.
Series Contemporary North American poetry series
Contemporary North American poetry series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1587295083 (alk. paper)
9781587295089

 
    
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