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Left of Poetry - Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics (Paperback)
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Left of Poetry - Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics (Paperback)
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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. Resisting the dismissal of thirties left writing as mere
propaganda, the book reveals how communist-affiliated poets
experimented with poetic modes-such as lyric and documentary-and
genres, including songs, ballads, and nursery rhymes in ways that
challenged existing frameworks for understanding the relationships
among poetic form, political commitment, and historical
transformation. As Ehlers shows, Depression left movements and
their international connections are crucial for understanding both
the history of modern poetry and the role of poetic thought in
conceptualizing historical change.
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