Thomas McGrath Start the Poetry Now!

• Other Authors: Sund, Pamela (Editor), Dussol, Vincent (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets; epic; North Dakota; Irish-Americans; political poetry; American Left (Industrial Workers of the World); Communist Party of America
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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...