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Author: Edwin Rolfe Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252066405 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
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This long-overdue collection, which gathers together more than two hundred poems written over a span of six decades, along with an extended biographical analysis by Fred Whitehead, permits a comprehensive assessment of the work of a man Thomas McGrath described as "one of the very best of the revolutionary poets." Don Gordon made his name in the 1930s as a passionate and outspoken political poet, his work being published in the most prestigious American journals. In spite of his growing literary reputation he was called before the Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. House or Representatives in September, 1951. Due to his openly communist views and his reluctance to give the committee names of fellow radical writers, Gordon was blacklisted from employment in the film industry. He devoted his time to writing poems, despite the difficulty of finding a wide audience for them. Many of Gordon's poems are suffused with themes of revolution and political activism, but this collection showcases the breadth of the subjects he addressed in his sixty years of writing, expressed with a rigorous aesthetic sensibility in a style that incorporates diverse influences, including modernism and surrealism. "Don Gordon is great," Meridel LeSueur wrote, "because he shows the vigorous and wondrous strength of the people." With this complete collection of his poems, readers can at last experience the full range of this vigorous and challenging writer.
Author: Michael Thurston Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807875007 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 283
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Poetry makes nothing happen," wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. He offers an engaging new look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser. Thurston combines close textual reading of the poems with research into their historical context to reveal how these four poets deployed the resources of tradition and experimentation to contest and redefine political common sense. In the process, he demonstrates that the aesthetic censure under which much partisan writing has labored needs dramatic revision. Although each of these poets worked with different forms and toward different ends, Thurston shows that their strategies succeed as poetry. He argues that partisan poetry demands reflection not only on how we evaluate poems but also on what we value in poems and, therefore, which poems we elevate.
Author: Edwin Rolfe Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252066405 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
This long-overdue collection, which gathers together more than two hundred poems written over a span of six decades, along with an extended biographical analysis by Fred Whitehead, permits a comprehensive assessment of the work of a man Thomas McGrath described as "one of the very best of the revolutionary poets." Don Gordon made his name in the 1930s as a passionate and outspoken political poet, his work being published in the most prestigious American journals. In spite of his growing literary reputation he was called before the Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. House or Representatives in September, 1951. Due to his openly communist views and his reluctance to give the committee names of fellow radical writers, Gordon was blacklisted from employment in the film industry. He devoted his time to writing poems, despite the difficulty of finding a wide audience for them. Many of Gordon's poems are suffused with themes of revolution and political activism, but this collection showcases the breadth of the subjects he addressed in his sixty years of writing, expressed with a rigorous aesthetic sensibility in a style that incorporates diverse influences, including modernism and surrealism. "Don Gordon is great," Meridel LeSueur wrote, "because he shows the vigorous and wondrous strength of the people." With this complete collection of his poems, readers can at last experience the full range of this vigorous and challenging writer.
Author: Cary Nelson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135310157 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 294
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Revolutionary Memory is the most important book yet to be published about the vital tradition of leftwing American Poetry. As Cary Nelson shows, it is not only our image of the past but also our sense of the present and future that changes when we recover these revolutionary memories. Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, Nelson brings to bear his extraordinary knowledge of American poets, radical movements, and social struggles in order to bring out an undervalued strength in a literature often left at the canon's edge. Focused in part of the red decade of the 1930s, Revolutionary Memory revitalizes biographical criticism for writers on the margin and shows us for the first time how progressive poets fused their work into a powerful chorus of political voices. Richly detailed and beautifully illustrated with period engravings and woodcuts, Revolutionary Memory brings that chorus dramatically to life and set a cultural agenda for future work.
Author: Leanna Renee Hieber Publisher: Kensington ISBN: 1635730600 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 270
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As the twentieth century dawns in NYC, the top-secret Ghost Precinct pursues justice beyond the earthly realm in this paranormal historical mystery series. The ethereal denizens of New York owe a great debt to Eve Whitby, the young medium who leads an all-female team of spiritualists in the police department’s Ghost Precinct. Without her efforts on behalf of the incorporeal, many souls would have been lost or damned by means both human and inhuman. But now Eve faces an enemy determined to exorcise the city’s ghostly population once and for all. Albert Prenze is supposed to be dead. Instead he is very much alive, having assumed the identity of his twin brother Alfred, and taken control of the family’s dubiously acquired fortune. To achieve his vicious ends, Albert plots to twist Eve’s abilities into his own psychic weapon—a weapon that not only poses a threat to spirits but to everyone she cares for, including her beloved Detective Horowitz . . . “Smart, boundlessly creative gaslamp fantasy.” —RT Book Reviews on Eterna and Omega “Will have readers chomping at the bit for more.” —Suspense Magazine on Eterna and Omega
Author: Cary Nelson Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252066804 Category : Spain Languages : en Pages : 212
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"The Aura of the Cause ... aims to honor the volunteers who took up arms against fascism in the great cause of the 1930s. It also offers the most detailed photographic record to date of their experience in Spain."--Preface.
Author: Norman Oro Publisher: Norman Oro (via CreateSpace) ISBN: 1505824494 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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For the first time, the adventures of Team 9, the Allied worlds and their battles against the supernatural menace known as Apaht are available in one book, Alliance Eternal. It begins with The Legend of Team 9, which tells the story of the Alliance, a vast and far flung collection of worlds brought together by the Allen field, a living energy source connecting all sentient beings. With the field come an equally vast array of abilities, including effortless travel between worlds, a form of telepathy and near immortality. The field is the bedrock of the Alliance; however, the Allies are shaken to their very core as they and their elite group of explorers, Team 9, make a startling discovery: The field is dying. In time, they learn that Apaht, a powerful supernatural being of pure malice, seeks to extinguish the field. An all-out effort is launched to protect it and save the Alliance. Nearly two centuries later, remnants of the group that defended the Allied worlds and vanquished Apaht are brought together to investigate a troubling new enigma involving the field. Tales of Section Zero begins with vast stretches of space inexplicably falling dark, bereft of the Allen field and the abilities it enables. Worse yet, the regions seem to be expanding. On a lonely and desolate outpost called Discovery 11, they learn that the cause of the dead zones lies in the Alliance's distant past, in a long-forgotten search to create an all-seeing machine called an omniviewer. It's up to Paul Hewitt, an immortal operative of the Alliance's intelligence service, to realize how the Alliance's ancient quest to peer into any corner of existence is roiling the field once again.
Author: Cary Nelson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199921156 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 733
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.
Author: Walter Kalaidjian Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521829953 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
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Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Author: Edwin Rolfe
Author: Michael Thurston
Author: Edwin Rolfe
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Author: Cary Nelson
Author: Leanna Renee Hieber
Author: Cary Nelson
Author: Norman Oro
Author: Cary Nelson
Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Author: Cary Nelson