Trees Became Torches: SELECTED POEMS (American Poetry Recovery Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252064178 ISBN 13: 9780252064173

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1994

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.
 

About this title

About the Author

Cary Nelson is Jublilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the national president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Among his twenty-five books are Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (also published by NYU) and the landmark coedited collection Cultural Studies.

Cary Nelson is Jublilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the national president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Among his twenty-five books are Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (also published by NYU) and the landmark coedited collection Cultural Studies.

Review

1949 (after Reading A News Item)
About Eyes
After Tu Fu (a.d. 713-770)
All Ghouls' Night
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been
Asbestos
At The Moment Of Victory
Ballad
Ballad Of The Noble Intentions
Bon Voyage
Brigadas Internacionales
Casualty
Catalogue Of I
City Of Anguish
Dawn Song
Death By Water
Definition
Elegia
Elegy For Our Dead
Epitaph
Essay On Dreiser (1871-1945)
Exodus 1947
Eyes Of A Blind Man
Eyes Of A Boy
Faces No Longer White
A Federico Garcia Lorca
First Love
The Glory Set
A Hunter Went Killing: A Fable
Idiot Joe Prays In Pershing ... Gets Hauled In For Vagrancy
In Praise Of
In The Time Of Hesitation
June 19, 1953
Kill The Umpire!
A Letter To The Denouncers
Little Ballad For Americans -- 1954
Manuela
May 22nd 1939
The Melancholy Comus
Mystery
Mystery 2
Night World
Now The Fog
Nuthin But Brass
On Rico Lebrun's Crucifixion
Paris--christmas 1938
Pastoral - 1954
Poem
A Poem To Delight My Friends Who Laugh At Science-fiction
The Poisoned Air Befouled The Whole Decade
Political Prisoner 123456789
Postscript To A War
Prophecy In Stone
Recruit
Room With Revolutionists
Season Of Death
The Ship
To Thine Own Self
Vincent
War Guilt
Winter's Ghost Plagues Them
Words Found On A Cave's Wall
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252064178
• ISBN 13: 9780252064173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Rolfe Edwin, Nelson Cary, Hendricks Jefferson