Left of poetry : Depression America and the formation of modern poetics / Sarah Ehlers.

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Ehlers, Sarah [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469651309
9781469651293

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PS324 .L448 2019

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Subject: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

"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"--

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

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