Left of poetry : Depression America and the formation of modern poetics /
"In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagin...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Poetic Front; Part I: Documentary; Chapter One: Photography and the Development of Radical Poetics: Langston Hughes in Haiti, Mexico, Alabama; Chapter Two: Fusing an Alloy: Muriel Rukeyser at the Limits of Poetry/Documentary; Part II: Lyric; Chapter Three: Lyric Effects: Singing the Futures of Poetry with Genevieve Taggard and Edwin Rolfe; Chapter Four: Lyric Internationalism: Jacques Roumain and His Committee; Part III: Rhythm
- Chapter Five: The Left Needs Rhythm: Popular Front Poetry, Antifascism, and the Counterarchives of ModernismEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Text Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z