TY - BOOK AU - Lowney,John ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - History, memory, and the literary left: modern American poetry, 1935-1968 T2 - Contemporary North American poetry series AV - PS310.P6 L68 2006eb U1 - 811/.509358 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Right and left (Political science) in literature KW - Politics and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Poets, American KW - Political and social views KW - Depressions KW - 1929 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10354639 ER -