Between Two Fires is about the transnational movement of poetry
during the Cold War. Beginning in the 1950s, it examines
transnational engagements across the Iron Curtain, reassessing US
poetry through a consideration of overlooked radical poets of the
mid-century, and then asking what such transactions tell us about
the way that anglophone culture absorbed new models during this
period. The Cold War synchronized culture across the globe, leading
to similar themes, forms, and critical maneuvers. Poetry, a
discourse routinely figured as distant from political concerns, was
profoundly affected by the ideological pressures of the period. But
beyond such mirroring, there were many movements across the Iron
Curtain, despite the barriers of cultural and language difference,
state security surveillance, spies, traitors and translators.
Justin Quinn shows how such factors are integral to transnational
cultural movements during this period, and have influenced even
postwar anglophone poetry that is thematically distant from the
Cold War. For the purposes of the study, Czech poetry-its writers,
its translators, its critics-stands on the other side of the Iron
Curtain as receptor and, which has been overlooked, part creator,
of the anglophone tradition in this period. By stepping outside the
frameworks by which anglophone poetry is usually considered, we see
figures such as Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Allen Ginsberg, and
Seamus Heaney, in a new way, with respect to the ideological
mechanisms that were at work behind the promotion of the aesthetic
as a category independent of political considerations, foremost
among these postcolonial theory.
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