History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments and Permissions ix 1. The Janitor’s Poems of Every Day: American Poetry and the s  2. Buried History: The Popular Front Poetics of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead  3. Allegories of Salvage: The Peripheral Vision of Elizabeth Bishop’s North & South  4. Harlem Disc-tortions: The Jazz Memory of Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred  5. A Reportage and Redemption: The Poetics of African American Countermemory in Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca  6. A Metamorphic Palimpsest: The Underground Memory of Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend  7. The Spectre of the s: George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous and Historical Amnesia  Notes  Bibliography  Index  ...