The Whole Song: Selected Poems (American Poetry Recovery Series)

By Kenneth Warren, Vincent Ferrini, Fred Whitehead

With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of word-craft distinguished him from poets like T. S. Eliot, infusing his work with dynamic images of Christ as a fighter, a revolutionary, and a martyr in opposing the mighty for the sake of the poor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252029097
• ISBN13: 9780252029097
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"