Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
1. The Janitor’s Poems of Every Day: American Poetry and the 1930s
2. Buried History: The Popular Front Poetics of Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
3. Allegories of Salvage: The Peripheral Vision of Elizabeth Bishop’s North & South
4. Harlem Disc-tortions: The Jazz Memory of Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred
5. A Reportage and Redemption: The Poetics of African American Countermemory in Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca
6. A Metamorphic Palimpsest: The Underground Memory of Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend
7. The Spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous and Historical Amnesia
Notes
Bibliography
Index