Table of Contents: History, memory, and the literary left

Main Author:	Lowney, John, 1957-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.
Series:	Contemporary North American poetry series
Subjects:	American poetry > History and criticism. > 20th century Right and left (Political science) in literature. Politics and literature > History > 20th century. > United States Poets, American > Political and social views. > 20th century Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10354639

Table of Contents:

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.