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Professor Dee Morris
Office: EPB 460
Office hours: W 2:00-3:00, F 11:30-12:30, & by appointment
dee-morris@uiowa.edu

Books on reserve at the Main Library:

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  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.

Szalay, Michael New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. Durham: Duke U Press, 2000.
Wald, Alan Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 2002.
  Poetries of the American Left lof tot LeftLeft Poetries LLefeft
Berke, Nancy Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker. Gainesville: U Press of Florida, 2001.
Brunner, Ed Cold War Poetry. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2001.
Coiner, Constance Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1998.
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 Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry. New York: Oxford, 2000.
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.
Schweik, Susan A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.
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.
  Objectivism, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, & Other Experimental Poetics lLA==
Beach, Christopher Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1998.
DuPlessis & Quartermain, eds. The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1999.
Individual Poets: Commentaries, Essays, & Biographies
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.
Rukeyser  
Herzog and Kaufman, eds. "How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?": The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser. New York: Palgrave, 1999.
Levi, Jan Haller, ed. A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Introduction by Adrienne Rich. New York: Norton, 1994.
Rukeyser, Muriel The Life of Poetry. Foreword by Jane Cooper. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 1999

 

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