Trees Became Torches

Edwin Rolfe

ISBN 10: 0252064178 / ISBN 13: 9780252064173

Edité par University of Illinois Press, 1994

pp. 168. N° de réf. du vendeur 263844997

Synopsis :

"Rolfe's voice is one that many of us feared was buried forever.
. . . He stands in the forefront of an entire 'lost generation' of left-wing
writers who fused artistic craft with irrepressible political commitment."
-- Alan Wald, author of The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Selected
Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural Commitment
"[Rolfe's] Spanish Civil War poems may be the best written by an
American writer, and his McCarthy era poems brilliantly counteract the
often apolitical, rather socially aseptic poetry of their time."
-- Reginald Gibbons, editor of TriQuarterly
The radical journalist and poet Edwin Rolfe wrote eloquently of the hardships
of the Great Depression, the experience of war, and McCarthy era witch-hunts.
More than fifty of his best poems--some beautifully lyrical and some devastatingly
satiric--are included in Trees Became Torches. Rolfe was widely
known as the poet laureate of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the Americans
who volunteered to help defend the elected Spanish government during the
1936-39 civil war.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Trees Became Torches
Éditeur : University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition : 1994
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New