Hog butchers, beggars, and busboys : poverty, labor, and the making of modern American poetry /
Marsh, John,1975-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To make poetry out of the unpoetical: Modern American poetry and the labor problem -- "Thinking / Of the Freezing Poor": The Suburban Counterpastoral in William Carlos Williams's early poetry -- Aware and awareless: T. S. Eliot's labor problems -- "Starve, freeze": Edna St. Vincent Millay, conspicuous privation, and the political economy -of Bohemia -- "Yes, sir!": Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and the poetics of serving -- A lost art of work: the fate of the craft ideal in Carl Sandburg's Chicago poems -- Conclusion: Distinctions with and without a difference.
American poetry
Working class in literature.
Labor in literature.
Modernism (Literature)