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A well-known proletarian poet of the 1930s, a pulp magazine writer with several pseudonyms, and a Chicago and New York City publicity and editorial writer, Fearing turned to writing “psycho-thrillers” in the 1940s and 1950s. His fourth novel The Big Clock (1946) achieved much popularity and was released as a film by Paramount in 1947.
- Carl Sandburg
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Alice Neel’s 1935 portrait of Kenneth Fearing, in the...
- Carl Sandburg
May 28, 2009 · During the darkest days of the Great Depression, artist Alice Neel painted a surreal portrait of her friend, the poet Kenneth Fearing. In it, the gaunt 33-year-old stares out through owl-rimmed glasses, eye sockets hollow from exhaustion and hunger, a gaping hole in his chest.
Kenneth Fearing: Preface to 1956 New and Selected Poems. I. The revolution that calls itself the Investigation had its rise in the theaters of communication, and now regularly parades its images across them, reiterates its gospel from them, daily and hourly marches through the corridors of every office, files into the living-room of every home.
THE MEANING OF KENNETH FEARING'S POETRY KENNETH FEARING'S first published volumes, Angel Arms and Poems, were products of the between-wars Marxist literary movement. Although this movement sought primarily to inspire revolutionary feeling and to create a literature of sharply critical realism, it could hardly avoid the thousand experimental
The symbolism of both poems is obscure, and some of the imagery is shocking and horrific. However, all experiments of this kind stopped after the conversion, which first manifested itself in print in 1926. In part, the new Fearing derives from Whitman via Sandburg.
The Meaning of Kenneth Fearing's Poetry. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Aug 23, 2021 · The poetry of Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961) is embroiled in—and one is tempted to say devoted to—that range of human feelings that begin with d: depression, dejection, dismay, disgust, desperation, despair.
