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Trees became torches : selected poems

Title: Trees became torches : selected poems / Edwin Rolfe ; edited by Cary Nelson & Jefferson Hendricks ; introduction and notes by Cary Nelson.
Author: Rolfe, Edwin, 1909-1954.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

152 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

The radical journalist and poet Edwin Rolfe wrote eloquently of subjects ranging from the hardships of the Great Depression and the experience of war to the witch-hunts of the McCarthy era. More than fifty of Rolfe's best poems - some beautifully lyrical and some devastatingly satiric - are included in Trees Became Torches, a book designed to reach a broader audience than the recently published Collected Poems.
Rolfe was widely known as the poet laureate of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the Americans who volunteered to help defend the elected Spanish government during the 1936-39 civil war.

Series Statement

American poetry recovery series

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Alternative Title

Poems.

Contents

Lyric Politics: The Poetry of Edwin Rolfe / Cary Nelson -- First Love -- A Federico Garcia Lorca -- Epitaph -- Death by Water -- City of Anguish -- Casualty -- About Eyes -- Eyes of a Blind Man -- Elegy for Our Dead -- Postscript to a War -- Brigadas Internacionales -- Paris - Christmas 1938 -- Elegia -- Manuela -- Eyes of a Boy -- The Melancholy Comus -- Essay on Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Vincent -- Nuthin but Brass -- Catalogue of I -- Asbestos -- Winter's Ghost Plagues Them -- Season of Death -- Room with Revolutionists -- Faces No Longer White -- Definition -- Prophecy in Stone -- The Ship -- To Thine Own Self -- May 22nd 1939 -- Recruit -- In the Time of Hesitation -- War Guilt -- At the Moment of Victory -- Exodus 1947 -- Idiot Joe Prays in Pershing Square and Gets Hauled in for Vagrancy -- After Tu Fu (A.D. 713-770) -- The Glory Set -- On Rico LeBrun's Crucifixion -- Mystery -- Mystery II -- Kill the Umpire! -- Poem -- Night World -- Dawn Song -- Bon Voyage -- Now the Fog.
The Poisoned Air Befouled the Whole Decade -- In Praise Of -- All Ghouls' Night -- Ballad of the Noble Intentions -- Political Prisoner 123456789 -- A Poem to Delight My Friends Who Laugh at Science-Fiction -- A Hunter Went Killing: A Fable -- Words Found on a Cave's Wall -- Are You Now or Have You Ever Been -- A Letter to the Denouncers -- 1949 (After Reading a News Item) -- June 19, 1953 -- Pastoral - 1954 -- Ballad -- Little Ballad for Americans - 1954 -- Notes to the Poems / Cary Nelson.

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94006722

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries