Author:
Cavanagh, Clare.
Imprint:New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Descriptionxi, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: acknowledged legislation -- Courting disaster: Blok and yeats -- Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the body politic -- The death of the book a la russe: the Acmeists under Stalin -- Akhmatova and the forms of responsibility: the Poem without a Hero -- Avant-guarde again, or the posthumous Polish adventures of Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Bringing up the rear: the histories of Wislawa Szymborska -- Counterrevolution in poetic language: Poland's Generation of '68 -- The unacknowledged legislator's dream: Czeslaw Milosz and Anglo-American poetry -- Afterword: martyrs, survivors, and success stories, or the postcommunist prophet.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-315) and index.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries
