Lowney, John, 1957-
History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / [electronic resource] : by John Lowney. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006. - xii, 287 p. - Contemporary North American poetry series . - Contemporary North American poetry series. .
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.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Poets, American--Political and social views.--20th century
Depressions--United States.--1929
Electronic books.
PS310.P6 / L68 2006eb
811/.509358
History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / [electronic resource] : by John Lowney. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006. - xii, 287 p. - Contemporary North American poetry series . - Contemporary North American poetry series. .
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.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Poets, American--Political and social views.--20th century
Depressions--United States.--1929
Electronic books.
PS310.P6 / L68 2006eb
811/.509358