The social life of poetry :

Green, Chris, 1968-

The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism / Chris Green. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xiv, 279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics . - Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908) -- New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930) -- Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945) -- 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). Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.

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


United States--Race relations.

PS323.5 / .G735 2009

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