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

By: Lowney, John, 1957-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contemporary North American poetry series: Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006Description: xii, 287 p.Subject(s): 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 StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 811/.509358 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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