02496    a2200421   4500001001400000003000800014005001700022007001500039008004000054020002200094024003400116040001500150041000800165100001700173245007600190260007300266300001100339500001000350520117900360540006501539650001101604650001501615650001901630650002701649650002301676650005801699650003301757650000901790650001701799650002001816650002101836650005201857650003101909700002001940776002201960856007501982999001702057OB-pulm-12078FrMaCLE20251214082737.0cu ||||||m||||220324e||||||||xx |||||s|||||||||0|en|d  a978-2-36781-399-87 a10.4000/books.pulm.120782doi  aFR-FrMaCLE  aeng1 aSund, Pamela10aThomas McGrath :bStart the Poetry Now! /cPamela Sund, Vincent Dussol.  aMontpellier :bPresses universitaires de la Méditerranée,c2022.  a332 p.  aEbook  a From hard scrabble origins on the Plains of North Dakota, to longshoremen organizing on Manhattan’s West Side docks, to living the life of a Bohemian poet in Los Angeles and beyond, Thomas McGrath’s literary aspirations took him far from his humble beginnings. For over six decades, McGrath created poems based largely on the themes of love, work, and political justice. His love of the prairie and his early years on a working farm were central to his life. The virtues of the agrarian community plus the Catholic faith of his family, shaped his Old West character. He was a political progressive and at times a member of the Communist Party of America. In the 1950’s, he was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted following his appearance. McGrath was the consummate non-conformist in his life and art. He refused to submit to the philosophy that politics and poetry must be kept separate. His epic work, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, is anchored by progressive politics, political and social theory, his love of family, his love of love, and, arguably, the greatest layering of language idioms in the history of American poetry.  aOpenEdition Books Licenseuhttps://www.openedition.org/12554 4aPoetry 4aépopée 4aDakota du Nord 4aIrlandais-Américains 4apoésie politique 4agauche américaine (Industrial Workers of the World) 4aParti communiste américain 4aepic 4aNorth Dakota 4aIrish-Americans 4apolitical poetry 4aAmerican Left (Industrial Workers of the World) 4aCommunist Party of America1 aDussol, Vincent  z978-2-84269-925-34 eSund, Pamelauhttps://books.openedition.org/pulm/12078yThomas McGrath  c10556d10556