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Left of Poetry
Sarah Ehlers
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jacques Roumain, and uncovering the contributions of lesser-known writers such as 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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Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, anti-imperialist literature, antifascist literature, left song culture, proletarian literature, Great Depression in the United States, innovative writing, U.S. occupation of Haiti, African American poetry, communism and literature in the United States, voice in poetry, Genevieve Taggard, Jewish American poetry, social movements in the United States, documentary poetry, genre theory, literature and photography, politics and literature, radicalism in the United States, Martha Millet, literature and mass media, ballad, history and criticism of lyric poetry, history of poetics, social problems in literature, children’s poetry, Edwin Rolfe, history and criticism of American poetry, Muriel Rukeyser, modernism, women’s poetry