03410nam 2200637 a 450 991078256980332120230814173259.01-58729-733-7(CKB)1000000000575958(EBL)843128(OCoLC)658122105(SSID)ssj0000172383(PQKBManifestationID)11179563(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172383(PQKBWorkID)10151919(PQKB)11261264(MiAaPQ)EBC843128(MdBmJHUP)muse9195(Au-PeEL)EBL843128(CaPaEBR)ebr10354639(EXLCZ)99100000000057595820060315d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHistory, memory, and the literary left[electronic resource] modern American poetry, 1935-1968 /by John LowneyIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (304 p.)Contemporary North American poetry seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-58729-508-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.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.In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930's through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960's. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930's American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in AmericanContemporary North American poetry series.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismRight and left (Political science) in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPoets, American20th centuryPolitical and social viewsDepressions1929United StatesAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Right and left (Political science) in literature.Politics and literatureHistoryPoets, AmericanPolitical and social views.Depressions811/.509358Lowney John1957-1508807MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782569803321History, memory, and the literary left3740290UNINA