Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA.

Written in an open and eloquent style, this book makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics, and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through the genre.

• ForewordChapter 1: ‘I Long Ago Moved On’: Adrienne Rich, Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-HumanismChapter 2: Marxist Humanism, Freedom and Raya Dunayevskaya Chapter 3: Adrienne Rich “Feeling Contradictions” Nicaragua, and Your Native Land, Your Life. Chapter 4: In Quest of America: The Dialectical Dimensions of “An Atlas of the Difficult World”Chapter 5: Chapter Five: Suffering in the Heart of Capital: Dark Fields of the RepublicChapter 6: American Innocence, the German ‘Guilt Question” and the Oslo Peace Process.Chapter 7: The End of History and the Forgotten Future: Rich vs. Neoliberalism Chapter 8: Fox: “Terza Rima” and the End of HistoryChapter 9: Salvaging Midnight SalvageChapter 10: Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: “Draft #2006” An American JeremiadChapter 11: 9/11 and The School Among the Ruins: “Tendril”Chapter 12: Rich in the Borderlands: Late Style and Her World of PainBibliography

Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA.

Written in an open and eloquent style, this book makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics, and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through the genre.

• ForewordChapter 1: ‘I Long Ago Moved On’: Adrienne Rich, Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-HumanismChapter 2: Marxist Humanism, Freedom and Raya Dunayevskaya Chapter 3: Adrienne Rich “Feeling Contradictions” Nicaragua, and Your Native Land, Your Life. Chapter 4: In Quest of America: The Dialectical Dimensions of “An Atlas of the Difficult World”Chapter 5: Chapter Five: Suffering in the Heart of Capital: Dark Fields of the RepublicChapter 6: American Innocence, the German ‘Guilt Question” and the Oslo Peace Process.Chapter 7: The End of History and the Forgotten Future: Rich vs. Neoliberalism Chapter 8: Fox: “Terza Rima” and the End of HistoryChapter 9: Salvaging Midnight SalvageChapter 10: Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: “Draft #2006” An American JeremiadChapter 11: 9/11 and The School Among the Ruins: “Tendril”Chapter 12: Rich in the Borderlands: Late Style and Her World of PainBibliography

Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA.

Written in an open and eloquent style, this book makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics, and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through the genre.

• ForewordChapter 1: ‘I Long Ago Moved On’: Adrienne Rich, Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-HumanismChapter 2: Marxist Humanism, Freedom and Raya Dunayevskaya Chapter 3: Adrienne Rich “Feeling Contradictions” Nicaragua, and Your Native Land, Your Life. Chapter 4: In Quest of America: The Dialectical Dimensions of “An Atlas of the Difficult World”Chapter 5: Chapter Five: Suffering in the Heart of Capital: Dark Fields of the RepublicChapter 6: American Innocence, the German ‘Guilt Question” and the Oslo Peace Process.Chapter 7: The End of History and the Forgotten Future: Rich vs. Neoliberalism Chapter 8: Fox: “Terza Rima” and the End of HistoryChapter 9: Salvaging Midnight SalvageChapter 10: Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: “Draft #2006” An American JeremiadChapter 11: 9/11 and The School Among the Ruins: “Tendril”Chapter 12: Rich in the Borderlands: Late Style and Her World of PainBibliography