History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 /
Lowney, John,1957-
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,
c2006.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
American poetry
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Politics and literature
Poets, American
Depressions