Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left

Introduction One: Modern Poems We Have Wanted to Forget 1. A poetry Dossier 2. Establishment Memory and Political poetry 3. The Assault on Langston Hughes 4. Naming Names Two: From the Great Depression to the Red Scare: The Poetry of Edwin Rolfe 1. Poetry as Lived History 2. The Lessons of Spain 3. Poetry Against McCarthyism Three: Poetry Chorus: The Politics of Revolutionary Memory 1.The Community of the Left 2. Tillie Olsen's Sweat Shop Poem 3. Revolution's Collective Voice Poetry Chorus: How Much for Spain? 1. Don Quixote in Prison 2. When Madrid Was the Tomb of Fascism 3. A Lament for Garcia Lorca 4. Exile without End