TY - GEN T1 - Left of poetry : Depression America and the formation of modern poetics A1 - Ehlers, Sarah LA - English PP - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1097184133 AB - "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"-- CN - PS324 .E35 2019 SN - 9781469651309 SN - 1469651300 SN - 9781469651293 SN - 1469651297 SN - 9781469651279 SN - 1469651270 SN - 9781469651286 SN - 1469651289 KW - Poetics : History : 20th century. KW - American poetry : 20th century : History. KW - American poetry : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Poétique : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire. KW - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry. KW - American poetry KW - Poetics KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -