Table des matières

Pamela Sund

Acknowledgements

Pamela Sund

Introduction

Interviews

Studs Terkel

Tribute to Thomas McGrath

Roundtable Discussion: Studs Terkel, moderator Panel: Reginald Gibbons, Michael Anania, and Alice McGrath, with a message from Adrienne Rich

Sterling Plumpp

Sterling Plumpp Discusses Thomas McGrath: Not a Leftist Poet but a Poet Leftist

Robert Bly

Robert Bly on Thomas McGrath: the Church; the Literary Elite; Poetic Language

David Martinson

Hinges (In memory of Tom McGrath)

Memoirs

Larry Woiwode

Master McGrath

Dale Jacobson

The Viet Nam War Days: Tom as Teacher and Activist

Mark Vinz

A Passionate Education: Tom McGrath as Mentor

Lewis Lubka

Tom McGrath: A Personal and Political Memoir

• On Meeting Tom
• Tom the Activist
• Portugal
• Little Red Club
• Final Words

Rick Watson

Testimony to an All-American Activity or Blues for a Blue-Star Commie Plow Boy Bringing the Revolution Home: (Peasant-Poet Prophet)

Jack Beeching

A Memoir of Thomas McGrath

Jack Beeching

To The Memory of Thomas McGrath

Critical Essays

David Pink

Thomas McGrath as a Neo-Romantic Poet

• Romantic Antecedents
• Romanticism Begins at Home
• The Double-edged Sword of Language
• The Crucifix as an Unacceptable Object
• Language as a Vehicle for Synthesis and Subversion

Vincent Dussol

How Blue Can Red Get?—Music as Metaphor in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath

Dale Jacobson

Thomas McGrath: Invoking the Communal Ego

Linda McCarriston

An Unreconstructed Townie: Thomas McGrath among the Gownies

Biography

Pamela Sund

Thomas McGrath: The Early Years, plus a Biographical Sketch

• Sources Used

Pamela Sund

Thomas McGrath: The Early Years, plus a Biographical Sketch

• Sources Used

Claribel Alegria

Praise for Thomas McGrath

Sergio Ramirez

Praises for Thomas McGrath

Vincent Dussol

Bibliography

Abstracts

Contributors