Mass Chants and Other Poems / Alan Baer Rothenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothenberg, Alan Baer, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1944]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the mass chant form as it is well adapted to the problem of voicing the larger will and dreams of the times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. Mass Chants

Song of the Double-V

Steel Helmets in the Mid-town Tunnel

Football on the Radio

II. In a personal view

Spanish Moon, 1938

To Childhood

Scientific Love

Three Kisses

III. Despatches from Loyalist Spain

1. Air Attack

2. Road Raked by Fire

3. Ambulance Escapes Artillery

4. 4. Direct Hit

5. Casualty List in Rome

6. Killed in Action: An Epitaph in Mud

IV. More Signs of the Times

Season's Greetings: Berlin, 1934

The Traffic Was Terrific

The War and the Caterpillar

The Century of Progress Fair: Chicago, 1933

V. Written in No Particular Year

On Handicraft

In A Skeptical Mood

Tornado

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88623-3

OCLC:

1100455562