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Unearthing the overlooked poet behind Poetry magazine
Harriet Monroe, whose work as the visionary founding editor of Poetry magazine profoundly shaped the development of American poetry in the 20th century, was a vital and prolific poet in her own right. This volume showcases the sweeping breadth of Monroe's poetic talents.
Monroe lived through a period of immense change and global conflict, from the American Civil War, through World War I and the Great Depression, up to the first stirrings of the second Great War. Through her poetry, Monroe confronted major issues, critiquing war, the impact of industrialization on the arts, and inequality, while championing women's rights and environmental conservation—issues that remain pressingly relevant today. Monroe's three collections of poetry, as well as her own "selected poems" volume, have all long been out of print. This book, then, represents the first appearance of many of these poems in more than 100 years. This selection includes meditations on modern technology and globalization in the early 20th century, love lyrics, hymns to the deserts of the American West, feminist reflections on gender and motherhood, and more. The volume also includes a number of poems that have never before been published, drawing on manuscripts found in Monroe's papers at the University of Chicago Library.
Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, under the guidance of Kevin McMullen, project manager of the Walt Whitman Archive, selected these poems to capture the range and breadth of Monroe's styles and poetic interest. The poems, along with an extensive critical introduction and explanatory notes, establish Monroe's place as an important and overlooked Modernist poet from the Midwest.
Contents
Editors' Foreword
Introduction
Poems
Origin of the Tides
In the Beginning
A Wreck
A Pastel
Love's Power
To Robert Louis Stevenson
A Daughter of the Dakotas
To W. S. M.
The Hotel
Night On State Street
The Turbine
Our Canal
For Peace
Myself
Love Songs
The Woman
The Shadow-Child
His Stenographer
A Little Old Maid
The Childless Woman
A Story
Why Not
At Twilight
A Power Plant
The Telephone
Beyond the Suns
The Hetch-Hetchy
The Sage
The Giant Cactus of Arizona
In the Air
Selections from "Dance of the Seasons"
The Difference
Azaleas
The Mocking-bird
On the Train
The Pine at Timberline
The Moment
On a Photograph of the Moon
Their God
Rubens
A Letter of Farewell
These Two
Ten Years Old
Supernal Dialogue
The Theatre of Dionysus
Venice
The Graf Zeppelin
The Sky-Scraper
[Untitled: O little virgins fair!]
Under the Lilacs
[Untitled: My friend, If sex is the heart of life]
At Noon
Plaint
Acknowledgments
Notes
