Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left

by Cary Nelson

Book Overview

Revolutionary Memory is the most important book yet to be published about the vital tradition of leftwing American Poetry. As Cary Nelson shows, it is not only our image of the past but also our sense of the present and future that changes when we recover these revolutionary memories. Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, Nelson brings to bear his extraordinary knowledge of American poets, radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415930057
• ISBN13: 9780415930055
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"