Thomas McGrath
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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...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 mars 2022
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-399-8
DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.12078
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2011
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-84269-925-3
Nombre de pages : 332
Pamela Sund
AcknowledgementsPamela Sund
IntroductionInterviews
Studs Terkel
Tribute to Thomas McGrathRoundtable Discussion: Studs Terkel, moderator Panel: Reginald Gibbons, Michael Anania, and Alice McGrath, with a message from Adrienne Rich
David Martinson
Hinges (In memory of Tom McGrath)Memoirs
Larry Woiwode
Master McGrathDale Jacobson
The Viet Nam War Days: Tom as Teacher and ActivistLewis Lubka
Tom McGrath: A Personal and Political MemoirJack Beeching
A Memoir of Thomas McGrathJack Beeching
To The Memory of Thomas McGrathCritical Essays
David Pink
Thomas McGrath as a Neo-Romantic PoetDale Jacobson
Thomas McGrath: Invoking the Communal EgoLinda McCarriston
An Unreconstructed Townie: Thomas McGrath among the GowniesBiography
Claribel Alegria
Praise for Thomas McGrathSergio Ramirez
Praises for Thomas McGrathVincent Dussol
Bibliography
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.
Pamela Sund, writer, painter, and educator. She was a student and friend of McGrath during the last decade of his life. Her critical reviews and feature articles have appeared in W.A.R.M. Journal, New North Artscape, Artpapers Magazine, and elsewhere. She conducted lengthy interviews with McGrath siblings for the biographical section in this collection and researched the special collections library at Louisiana State University for McGrath texts and memorabilia. She is a native of North Dakota and lives in Fargo.
Vincent Dussol, French educator and translator. He has translated texts by Ed Dorn, Ray DiPalma, Fanny Howe and Charles Olson. He was introduced to McGrath’s poetry when reading an interview (in Les Inrockuptibles) with filmmaker Mike Cimino for the French release of Sunchaser. While writing a doctorate on McGrath, he visited McGrath’s home town of Sheldon, North Dakota, and researched the McGrath papers at the University of North Dakota Special Collections library in 2001. He is a lecturer at Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier, France.
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