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... A Concordance to Herman Melville’s ‘‘Clarel:A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land Ed. Larry Edward Wegener. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen. 1997. 4 vols. clxxvii, 1817pp. $119.95. Larry Wegener’s 155-page...

...Gayle Wald Book Reviews  841 James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes. By Noelle Morrissette. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2013. xiii, 243 pp. Paper, $45.00. Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem. By Jean...

... in the historiography of wartime culture. Cohen analyzes a series of contraband works: abolitionist poems by John Greenleaf Whittier; African American spirituals like “O Let My People Go”; minstrel songs like “Kingdom Coming”; and an assortment of anonymous poems published as broadsides and in periodicals...

...John Marsh Duke University Press 2007 John A Lost Art of Work: Marsh The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems Our only criteria of judgment should not be whether or not a man’s actions...

... poems, ‘‘Boston Hymn’’ and ‘‘Voluntarieshis argument works through the entire range of Emerson’s works and journals, tracing crucial aspects of their language to contemporary political, scientific...

....) I prefer Corso dark and silent next to Kerouac’s coffin. His brooding posture 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 192 of238 and untameable hair speak eloquently enough. Helen Lojek, Boise State University Poems of Pure...

... poems, ‘‘Boston Hymn’’ and ‘‘Voluntarieshis argument works through the entire range of Emerson’s works and journals, tracing crucial aspects of their language to contemporary political, scientific...

...Adalaide Morris Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions . By Bernstein Charles . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2011 . 282 pp . Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life . By Goble Mark . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2010 . xiii, 374 pp...

...Magdalena Zapędowska Abstract Martin Delany’s Blake , serialized in the Weekly Anglo-African in 1861–62, includes five unattributed poems from James Monroe Whitfield’s volume America and Other Poems , which appear in the novel as compositions of the Cuban revolutionary poet Placido. Largely...

...Ben Lee Duke University Press 2004 Ben ‘‘Howl’’ and Other Poems: Is There Old Left in Lee These New Beats? As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret helio- tropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which...

... Modernism: The Politics of the Page. By George Bornstein. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 185 pp. $55.00. Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907–1924. Ed. Robin G. Schulze. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xviii, 504 pp. $50.00. George Bornstein’s...

..., material culture, race, time, women, memory, and American literary modes from the eighteenth century through what Gray calls ‘‘racial modernity Gray focuses on rela- tively obscure women writers’ poems or editing practices, while Stabile exam- ines productions such as personal journals, commonplace...

...Audrey Raden The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America . By Michael C. Cohen Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2015 . 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book available. Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman...

...Cristanne Miller Marianne Moore's war poems of the 1940s, and in particular “In Distrust of Merits,” have frequently been read as a compendium of didactic, clichéd, pious, overstated public pronouncements brought on by the immediate urgency of the war, “show[ing] too much the pressure of news...