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OverviewRevolutionary Memory is the most important book yet to be published about the vital tradition of leftwing American poetry. As Cary Nelson shows, it is not only our image of the past but also our sense of the present and future that changes when we recover these revolutionary memories. Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, Nelson brings to bear his extraordinary knowledge of American poets, radical movements, and social struggles in order to bring out an undervalued strength in a literature often left at the canon's edge. Focused in part of the red decade of the 1930s, Revolutionary Memory revitalizes biographical criticism for writers on the margin and shows us for the first time how progressive poets fused their work into a powerful chorus of political voices. Richly detailed and beautifully illustrated with period engravings and woodcuts, Revolutionary Memory brings that chorus dramatically to life and set a cultural agenda for future work. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cary NelsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780415930048ISBN 10: 0415930049 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 04 June 2001 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction One: Modern Poems We Have Wanted to Forget 1. A poetry Dossier 2. Establishment Memory and Political poetry 3. The Assault on Langston Hughes 4. Naming Names Two: From the Great Depression to the Red Scare: The Poetry of Edwin Rolfe 1. Poetry as Lived History 2. The Lessons of Spain 3. Poetry Against McCarthyism Three: Poetry Chorus: The Politics of Revolutionary Memory 1. The Community of the Left 2. Tillie Olsen's Sweat Shop Poem 3. Revolution's Collective Voice Poetry Chorus: How Much for Spain? 1. Don Quixote in Prison 2. When Madrid Was the Tomb of Fascism 3. A Lament for Garcia Lorca 4. Exile without EndReviewsCary Nelson's Revolutionary Memory offers exhaustive scholarship of a genuinely lived kind, as personal interviews and rare artifacts of material poetic culture--texts marked up for performance, poems transcribed onto postcards home, scrapbook entries--reveal the meanings and uses of poetry in people's everyday lives and reflect this book's remarkable level of historical detail. - American Literature Poetry of the American Left???! Damn Straight. What Cary Nelson has done in this revolutionary book is to demonstrate that the old, contemptuous cold-war dismissals were based on plain ignorance. And he has turned the quite fascinating poetry of the American Left into a weapon to demolish the unexamined assumptions of high modernism, low pedantry, and middle-brow indifference to the power of political verse to engage memory and move people to act on their values. -Paul Lauter, editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature Revolutionary Memory bravely seeks to remember a truly lost generation of modernists - partisan poets who protested working conditions in the 1920's, the rise of fascism in Spain, the McCarthyite witch hunts. Cary Nelson makes the unfashionable claim that poetry makes something happen in history, and in the process restores the poetry of the Left to central stage in American culture. -Michael Davidson, author of Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and The Material World Cary Nelson, bad-boy avenger of our lost radical poets, is an angry critic; that's what makes him so good... Like an ace reporter, searching archives, attics, and used bookstores for evidence, Nelson locates the material culture of this tradition in the objects, lifestories, and collective struggles of the poets; they offer the way to regain revolution's poetic memory. -Paula Rabinowitz, author of They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary After a century of nearly complete scholarly silence about the poetry of the American left, scholars are now giving this revolutionary literature its due. -Crete Reord, Crete, IL Cary Nelson's Revolutionary Memory offers exhaustive scholarship of a genuinely lived kind, as personal interviews and rare artifacts of material poetic culture--texts marked up for performance, poems transcribed onto postcards home, scrapbook entries--reveal the meanings and uses of poetry in people's everyday lives and reflect this book's remarkable level of historical detail. - American Literature Poetry of the American Left???! Damn Straight. What Cary Nelson has done in this revolutionary book is to demonstrate that the old, contemptuous cold-war dismissals were based on plain ignorance. And he has turned the quite fascinating poetry of the American Left into a weapon to demolish the unexamined assumptions of high modernism, low pedantry, and middle-brow indifference to the power of political verse to engage memory and move people to act on their values. -Paul Lauter, editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature Revolutionary Memory bravely seeks to remember a truly lost generation of modernists - partisan poets who protested working conditions in the 1920's, the rise of fascism in Spain, the McCarthyite witch hunts. Cary Nelson makes the unfashionable claim that poetry makes something happen in history, and in the process restores the poetry of the Left to central stage in American culture. -Michael Davidson, author of Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and The Material World Cary Nelson, bad-boy avenger of our lost radical poets, is an angry critic; that's what makes him so good... Like an ace reporter, searching archives, attics, and used bookstores for evidence, Nelson locates the material culture of this tradition in the objects, lifestories, and collective struggles of the poets; they offer the way to regain revolution's poetic memory. -Paula Rabinowitz, author of They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary After a century of nearly complete scholarly silence about the poetry of the American left, scholars are now giving this revolutionary literature its due. -Crete Reord, Crete, IL Cary Nelson's Revolutionary Memory offers exhaustive scholarship of a genuinely lived kind, as personal interviews and rare artifacts of material poetic culture--texts marked up for performance, poems transcribed onto postcards home, scrapbook entries--reveal the meanings and uses of poetry in people's everyday lives and reflect this book's remarkable level of historical detail. <br>- American Literature <br> Poetry of the American Left???! Damn Straight. What Cary Nelson has done in this revolutionary book is to demonstrate that the old, contemptuous cold-war dismissals were based on plain ignorance. And he has turned the quite fascinating poetry of the American Left into a weapon to demolish the unexamined assumptions of high modernism, low pedantry, and middle-brow indifference to the power of political verse to engage memory and move people to act on their values. <br>-Paul Lauter, editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature <br> Revolutionary Memory bravely seeks to remember a truly lost generation of modernists - partisan poets who protested working conditions in the 1920's, the rise of fascism in Spain, the McCarthyite witch hunts. Cary Nelson makes the unfashionable claim that poetry makes something happen in history, and in the process restores the poetry of the Left to central stage in American culture. <br>-Michael Davidson, author of Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and The Material World <br> Cary Nelson, bad-boy avenger of our lost radical poets, is an angry critic; that's what makes him so good... Like an ace reporter, searching archives, attics, and used bookstores for evidence, Nelson locates the material culture of this tradition in the objects, lifestories, and collective struggles of the poets; they offer the way to regain revolution's poetic memory. <br>-Paula Rabinowitz, author of They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary <br> After a century of nearly complete scholarly silence about the poetry of the American left, scholars are now giving this revolutionary literature its due. <br>-Crete Reord, Crete, IL <br> Cary Nelson's Revolutionary Memory offers exhaustive scholarship of a genuinely lived kind, as personal interviews and rare artifacts of material poetic culture--texts marked up for performance, poems transcribed onto postcards home, scrapbook entries--reveal the meanings and uses of poetry in people's everyday lives and reflect this book's remarkable level of historical detail. -- American Literature Nelson's book is an important realization of the sort of literary archaeology that he called for in Repression and Recovery. It is particularly valuable in its sustained attention to the poetics, practice, context, influence, and achievement of the Depression generation of Left poets, placing (or replacing) those poets within longer and larger Left traditions. -- James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Radical Teacher Author InformationCary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is the editor of the Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford). He has co-authored or co-edited several books for Routledge, including Academic Keywords, Madrid 1937, and Cultural Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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