TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ehlers,Sarah
TI  - Left of poetry: Depression America and the formation of modern poetics 
SN  - 9781469651309
AV  - PS324 .L448 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Poetics
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Poetic Front; Part I: Documentary; Chapter One: Photography and the Development of Radical Poetics: Langston Hughes in Haiti, Mexico, Alabama; Chapter Two: Fusing an Alloy: Muriel Rukeyser at the Limits of Poetry/Documentary; Part II: Lyric; Chapter Three: Lyric Effects: Singing the Futures of Poetry with Genevieve Taggard and Edwin Rolfe; Chapter Four: Lyric Internationalism: Jacques Roumain and His Committee; Part III: Rhythm; Chapter Five: The Left Needs Rhythm: Popular Front Poetry, Antifascism, and the Counterarchives of ModernismEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Text Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - "In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics. Offering new and challenging readings of prominent figures such as Langston Hughes and Muriel Rukeyser, and uncovering the contributions of lesser-known writers such as Jacques Roumain, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet, Ehlers illuminates an aesthetically and geographically diverse matrix of schools and movements"--
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