- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 287 p.)
- Series Statement
- Contemporary North American poetry series
- Uniform Title
- History, memory, and the literary left (Online)
- Alternative Title
- History, memory, and the literary left (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2006044519
- OCLC
- ssj0000172383
- 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.
- Series
Contemporary North American poetry series
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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