The first American poets, with emphasis on the last of them

Our last first poets: Vision and history in contemporary American poetry

Literature & Fiction

Nelson, Cary

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

OUR LAST FIRST POETS: Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry

History & Criticism

The editors have compiled for the first time Merwin's most important uncollected prose works including memoirs, fiction, essays and two previously unpublished pieces from the Merwin archive. This volume collects 26 pieces broken into four sections: Other Worlds, Other Selves: Fiction; The Mediated Past: Autobiography and Memoirs; A Public Conscience: Essays and Statements; and Poetics and the Translator's Mirror: Essays and Statements.

REGIONS OF MEMORY

MERWIN, W.S.

Folsom, Ed

Aura of the Cause: A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

Kept secret in Moscow for nearly sixty years, the dramatic, moving photographic record of the volunteer army that battled in the Spanish Civil War is presented in The Aura of the Cause. This photographic catalog tells the story of some forty thousand volunteers who took up arms against Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist cavalry as the International Brigades. American volunteers gathered the documents and photos in the fall and winter of 1938-9 and shipped them to Moscow for safekeeping, fearful of what might happen to them as the fighting worsened in Spain. For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union had indicated the archive was not in Moscow; the photographic treasures were made available, carefully preserved and catalogued, only after the Soviet Union fell. The best of the photographs have been on display in New York City, accompanied by this catalog. The album presents the first full published picture of daily life and death among the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and other Spanish Civil War volunteers.

History

Americas

Abraham Lincoln Brigrade Archives

Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Home From the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers

Travel

Kept secret in Moscow for nearly sixty years, the dramatic, moving photographic record of the volunteer army that battled in the Spanish Civil War is presented in The Aura of the Cause.
This photographic catalog tells the story of some forty thousand volunteers who took up arms against Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist cavalry as the International Brigades. American volunteers gathered the documents and photos in the fall and winter of 1938-9 and shipped them to Moscow for safekeeping, fearful of what might happen to them as the fighting worsened in Spain.
For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union had indicated the archive was not in Moscow; the photographic treasures were made available, carefully preserved and catalogued, only after the Soviet Union fell.
The best of the photographs have been on display in New York City, accompanied by this catalog. The album presents the first full published picture of daily life and death among the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and other Spanish Civil War volunteers.

Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State

Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published―individually and collectively―in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace. The faculty discussed here have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to delegitimizing the Jewish state. While there are beliefs they hold in common―including the conviction that there is nothing good to say about Israel―they also develop distinctive arguments designed to recruit converts to their cause in novel ways. They do so both as writers and as teachers; Israel Denial is the first to give substantial attention to anti-Zionist pedagogy. No effort to understand the BDS movement's impact on the academy and public policy can be complete without the kind of understanding this book offers.
 A co-publication of the Academic Engagement Network

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Indiana University Press

Repression and recovery: Modern American poetry and the politics of cultural memory, 1910-1945 (The Wisconsin project on American writers)

University of Wisconsin Press

A poststructuralist literary history - Nelson's premise that the history of modernist culture is one we no longer know we have forgotten and he aims to recover the political questions many forgotten modern poets looked straight in the eye.

Repression And Recovery: Modern American Poetry & Politics Of Cultural Memory (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)

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