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This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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This long-overdue collection, which gathers together more than two
hundred poems written over a span of six decades, along with an
extended biographical analysis by Fred Whitehead, permits a
comprehensive assessment of the work of a man Thomas McGrath
described as "one of the very best of the revolutionary poets." Don
Gordon made his name in the 1930s as a passionate and outspoken
political poet, his work being published in the most prestigious
American journals. In spite of his growing literary reputation he
was called before the Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S.
House of Representatives in September 1951. Due to his openly
communist views and his reluctance to give the committee names of
fellow radical writers, Gordon was blacklisted from employment in
the film industry. He devoted his time to writing poems, despite
the difficulty of finding a wide audience for them. Many of
Gordon's poems are suffused with themes of revolution and political
activism, but this collection showcases the breadth of the subjects
he addressed in his sixty years of writing, expressed with a
rigorous aesthetic sensibility in a style that incorporates diverse
influences, including modernism and surrealism. "Don Gordon is
great, " Meridel LeSueur wrote, "because he shows the vigorous and
wondrous strength of the people." With this complete collection of
his poems, readers can at last experience the full range of this
vigorous and challenging writer. The Child Deep as a mole, In the
night world I lie, Buried to the eyeball In thoughts of violence.
This is the truth Of the solitary man: Each is a Berlin wall, While
in the flyblown street Aggression, loose as a lion, Mangles the one
we love.
"Rolfe's voice is one that many of us feared was buried forever. .
. . He stands in the forefront of an entire 'lost generation' of
left-wing writers who fused artistic craft with irrepressible
political commitment." -- Alan Wald, author of The Responsibility
of Intellectuals: Selected Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural
Commitment "[Rolfe's] Spanish Civil War poems may be the best
written by an American writer, and his McCarthy era poems
brilliantly counteract the often apolitical, rather socially
aseptic poetry of their time." -- Reginald Gibbons, editor of
TriQuarterly The radical journalist and poet Edwin Rolfe wrote
eloquently of the hardships of the Great Depression, the experience
of war, and McCarthy era witch-hunts. More than fifty of his best
poems--some beautifully lyrical and some devastatingly satiric--are
included in Trees Became Torches. Rolfe was widely known as the
poet laureate of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the Americans who
volunteered to help defend the elected Spanish government during
the 1936-39 civil war.
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