LEADER 03434nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910819861003321 005 20240516112224.0 010 $a1-58729-733-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000575958 035 $a(EBL)843128 035 $a(OCoLC)658122105 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179563 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10151919 035 $a(PQKB)11261264 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843128 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9195 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843128 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354639 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000575958 100 $a20060315d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHistory, memory, and the literary left $emodern American poetry, 1935-1968 /$fby John Lowney 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary North American poetry series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-508-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930's through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960's. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930's American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American 410 0$aContemporary North American poetry series. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRight and left (Political science) in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoets, American$y20th century$xPolitical and social views 606 $aDepressions$y1929$zUnited States 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPoets, American$xPolitical and social views. 615 0$aDepressions 676 $a811/.509358 676 $a811.509358 700 $aLowney$b John$f1957-$01662466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819861003321 996 $aHistory, memory, and the literary left$94019179 997 $aUNINA