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The Social Life of Poetry

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230101692

ISBN: 978-1-349-37656-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 6, 2015

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Introduction

Green, Chris

Pages: 1 –13

[This book reveals the role Appalachia played in America’s racial discourse during the modern era. To do so, it examines how that discourse shaped and was shaped by the people who wrote, published, and read four books of poetry about Appalachia. To set the stage upon which the books operated,...
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Evangelizing an Anglo Equality (1883–1908)

Green, Chris

Pages: 17 –39

[At the turn of the century administrators at Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) were engaged in an internecine struggle. Each sought to be the Appalachian institution of higher learning that served (white) Southern mountain students.1 In 1929, three of the poets (Jesse Stuart,...
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New York City’s Cultural Pluralists (1906–1930)

Green, Chris

Pages: 41 –67

[To understand the transformation of pluralist discourse in the 1920s, this chapter delves into the connections between New York City’s progressive, ethnic, publishing, and educational institutions whose collaboration set the groundwork for how New York presses of the 1930s vied to influence...
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Reactionary Regionalism versus Critical Quarterlies (1925–1945)

Green, Chris

Pages: 69 –93

[When Appalachian poets began publishing in the 1930s, they were largely able to do so because regionalism had become a national discourse with living roots in the ongoing debates between the Nashville Agrarians and Southern liberals about the South’s relationship to industry and culture. During...
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Racing the Land with Jesse Stuart’s Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (1934)

Green, Chris

Pages: 97 –123

[Jesse Stuart (1906–1984) is a central yet ambiguous icon in Appalachian literary history. The son of a tenant farmer from northeastern Kentucky, Stuart stands as Appalachia’s most prolific author, having authored sixty-four books, mostly with E. P. Dutton and McGraw-Hill.1 Riding the wave of...
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“Authentic Folk Feeling” in James Still’s Hounds on the Mountain (1937)

Green, Chris

Pages: 125 –159

[Looking back from 1988, James Still describes the difficulty of realizing a book’s value: “It might be a comfort to some to learn that of the ten books I’ve published, every one cost me in time and travail more than I earned in royalties” (“I sometimes tell” 141). Indeed, Hounds on the Mountain...
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Rebinding “The Book of the Dead” into Muriel Rukeyser’s U.S. 1 (1938)

Green, Chris

Pages: 161 –198

[Scholars have skillfully analyzed Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” for how it manifests modernist discourses, but decontexualizations have led to substantial oversights. Analysis of “The Book of the Dead” has been isolated from its original place of publication, U.S. 1. (Covici·Friede,...
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The Tight Rope of Democracy and Don West’s Clods of Southern Earth (1946)

Green, Chris

Pages: 199 –229

[Don West composed poetry to catalyze political action. The son of a small farmer turned sharecropper from the north Georgia mountains, West first attended Lincoln Memorial University and then Vanderbilt, where he trained as a preacher of the Social Gospel. After cofounding Highlander Folk School...

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