Books on reserve at the Main Library

	History of the American Left
Denning, Michael	The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Verso, 1997.
Kalaidjian, Walter	American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism & Postmodern Critique. New York: Columbia, 1993.
Maxwell, William J.	New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. New York: Columbia U Press, 1999.
North, Joseph, ed.	New Masses: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties. New York: International Publishers, 1969.
Rabinowitz, Paula	They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary. New York: Verso, 1994.
Stott, William.	Documentary Expression and Thirties America. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1986.
Wald, Alan	Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 2002.
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Brunner, Ed	Cold War Poetry. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2001.
Davidson, Michael	Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004.
Harrington, Joseph	Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics. Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, 2002.
Kalaidjian, Walter	Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry. New York: Columbia U Press, 1989.
Nelson, Cary.	Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Nelson, Cary	Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Nelson, Deborah	Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. New York: Columbia U Press, 2002.
Smethurst, James	The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946. New York: Oxford, 1999.
Thurston, Michael	Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry Between the World Wars. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001.
	Individual Poets: Commentaries, Essays, & Biographies
Objectivists
DuPlessis & Quartermain, eds.	The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1999.
Hughes
Rampersad, Arnold	I, Too, Sing America: The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 1: 1902-1941. New York: Oxford U Press, 1986.
Rampersad, Arnold	I Dream A World: The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 2: 1941-1967. New York: Oxford U Press, 2002.
Rolfe
Nelson & Hendricks, eds.	Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1993.

 

Glossary of Useful Terms

Objective correlative

Dramatic monologue

Collage

Modernism

High modernism

Paratactic

hypotactic