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Author:

Green, Chris, 1968-

Title:

The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism / Chris Green.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiv, 279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry--Appalachian Region--History and criticism.
European Americans--Race identity.
Whites--Race identity--United States.
Cultural pluralism--United States--History.
United States--Race relations.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appalachia, race, and pluralism -- Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908) -- New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930) -- Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945) -- The social life of poetry -- Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow (1934) -- "Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain (1937) -- Rebinding "The book of the dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938) -- The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth (1946).

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics

ISBN:

0230610935
9780230610934

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226357062

LCCN:

2009023756

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)