ID: 8790  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze
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Medium: BookExtent: 300 pp.
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Title: Collected Poems of John WheelwrightSubtitle:
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Date: Issuedin/on: 1972
Language: English
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Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism
Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism
Subjects: Cultural Practices
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Wo/Men		Keywords: leftish
Keywords: politics
Keywords: communism
Keywords: Nazism
Keywords: poetry
Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel
Keywords: Wheelwright, John		Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, leftish)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, politics)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, communism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, Nazism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, poetry)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Wheelwright, John)
Comment: The book includes Rock and Shell (1933), Mirror of Venus (1938), Political Self-Portrait (1940) and Dusk to Dusk. The ARGUMENT that Wheelwright wrote for Political Self-Portrait starts with the following statement: “The Author’s use of personal pronouns (‘they’, for capitalists; ‘you’, for wage earners; ‘we’ for professionals) develops Lenin’s grammatical examples. His book, an essay in bringing good men forth, being intended for lasting entertainment, is didactic. Instruction which does not entertain does not teach; entertainment which teaches nothing is not entertaining” (149). “Anathema, Maranatha”, included in that collection, is dedicated to Rukeyser. For this poem, Wheelwright wrote the following note: “ANATHEMA, MARANATHA! which means ‘Let it be damned. The Lord will come!’, deals with Malkuth as Stalinism, quotes the salutation with which in 1933 it greeted risen Hitlerism, and gives the materialist solution to spiritual problems of evil, which is developed later” (151).