Contents

Modernism from Right to Left

     Abbreviations
     Preface                                 

1    "Which Side Are You On?"                

          Sticking to the Facts
          Aesthete (New Style)
          Spain
          In the Catastrophic Room

Arrogations

2    The Poet and the Depression             

          Ideas of No Given Date             
          The New Moral Climate              
          A Dirty House in a Gutted World    
          Labor Day, 1934                    
          The Tedium of Being Rare           

3    What Superb Mechanics                   

          Mr. Hyphenate Latimer
          Headed Left
          The Politics of Limited Editions

Convergences

4    The Rage for Order

          Objectivism and Sentimentalism
          A More Subtle Way of Referring
          Misery Is Not to Be Borne
          Fortify the Author

5    Turmoil in the Middle Ground: Politicizing the Lyric

          Forces in the Know
          Reforming Modernism from Within
          Poetry Cannot Be Quiet Anymore
          Popular-Front Poetics
          Music of a Toughened Sort
          Playing the Present
          Don't Mourn, Formalize

6    Toward a Rhyming of Opposites: Owl's Clover

          What Fate Assigns to the Moment
          The Drastic Community
          Harmonies Beyond Known Harmony
          Delete the Sprawling Portent

7    A Million People on One String          

          The Rational Element               
          Things as They Are                 
          A Little Patient Explaining        
          Perhaps It Gives                   
          Two Kinds of Against               



 
 
 
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