Revolutionary Memory

Recovering the Poetry of the American Left

By: Cary Nelson

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Paperback | 15 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Written by a foremost scholar of radical literature.
Argues that political poetry is an important part of the American heritage.
50 rare period illustrations.
"Revolutionary 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.

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"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." -- AmericanLiterature
"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

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