[New-Poetry] Was it someone on this list working on poetry of the abject?

[Skip Fox]

Perhaps it was the Buffalo list, but in case . . .

 

I cannot remember seeing Mina Loy listed with her great poems of derelicts,
the homeless, extremely poor, etc. The most obvious are "Der Blinde Junge,"
"Lady Laura in Bohemia," "On Third Avenue," "Idiot Child on a Fire-Escape,"
Chiffon Velours," & "Hot Cross Bum." "Ephemerid" is about an lower class
child in the Bowery, not homeless however. The woman in "An Aged Woman" is
not necessary impoverished by anything but age.

 

What about W.C. Williams' poetry of the poor, the raped, etc.? (Or his
stories like "A Night in June.") Or Sandburg's "Mag" etc.?

 

Rukeyser has great poems about industrial abuse of workers &c. And Lerner
(Tillie Olson) about the abuse of Mexican workers &c. Much proletarian
poetry. Even _United States_ by Reznikoff.

 

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