The Whole Song: Selected Poems (American Poetry Recovery Series)
With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of...
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With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of word-craft distinguished him from poets like T. S. Eliot, infusing his work with dynamic images of Christ as a fighter, a revolutionary, and a martyr in opposing the mighty for the sake of the poor.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780252029097 (0252029097)
ASIN: 0252029097
Publish date: 2004-05-05
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
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