Documentary modernism as popular front poetics: Muriel Rukeyser's "Book of the dead"

Modern Language Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-83

  Thurston, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950686069     PISSN: 00267929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00267929-60-1-59     Document Type: Review

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