Thomas McGrath (1) (1916–1990)
Author of Letter to an Imaginary Friend: Parts I-IV
For other authors named Thomas McGrath, see the disambiguation page.
Series
Works by Thomas McGrath
Mediterranean 2 copies
The Bread of this World; Praises III 2 copies
Praises 1 copy
9 poems 1 copy
Landscape with birds 1 copy
First manifesto 1 copy
Dacotah territory 5 summer-fall 1973 — Special guest editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 375 copies, 2 reviews
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributor — 108 copies, 2 reviews
History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 (2006) — excerpted — 9 copies
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contributor — 6 copies
Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978 to 1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Contributor — 6 copies
Negative space — Preface — 5 copies
Peace or perish : a crisis anthology — Contributor — 4 copies
The revolutionary poet in the United States : the poetry of Thomas McGrath (1988) — Contributor — 3 copies, 1 review
Poetry Magazine Vol. 86 No. 3, June 1955 — Contributor — 2 copies
Poetry Magazine Vol. 109 No. 6, March 1967 — Contributor — 2 copies
Moons and Lion Tailes, No. 4: A Midwestern Journal of Poetry and Comment (1976) — Contributor — 2 copies
Western review volume 16 number 3 Spring 1952 — Contributor — 1 copy
Another Chicago magazine 5 — Contributor/interviewee — 1 copy
The North Dakota quarterly : vol. 50, no 4, Fall 1982 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Voice of Scotland : vol. v, no. 2 (December 1948) — Contributor — 1 copy
Kayak 12 — Contributor — 1 copy
Poetry East : number twenty & twenty-one fall 1986 : poetics — Contributor — 1 copy
South Dakota review : the symposium: ten poets: fiction and poetry, volume 5, number 3 (autumn 1967) — Contributor — 1 copy
Poetry Los Angeles I — Contributor — 1 copy
Mainstream : Vol. 15 No. 5 April 1962 — Contributor — 1 copy
Mainstream : volume 9 number 11 December 1956 — Contributor — 1 copy
Free passage : a journal of prose and poetry/no.2 — Contributor — 1 copy
Mainstream : volume 1 number 4 Fall 1947 — Contributor — 1 copy
Shouting at midnight — Introduction — 1 copy
West end magazine: Midwest people's culture anthology issue: volume 5 number 1 Summer 1978 — Contributor — 1 copy
Crescendo : a laboratory for young america — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy
Christmas 1968 : 14 poets — Contributor — 1 copy
The California quarterly — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 36, Summer 1988 — Contributor — 1 copy
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 35, Spring 1988 — Contributor — 1 copy
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 34, Fall 1987 — Contributor — 1 copy
Racer and lame : poetry — Preface — 1 copy
Cultural correspondence : No. 9 Sex roles & humor — Contributor — 1 copy
Epos : poetry of Los Angeles (vol. 9, no. 4 Summer 1958) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1916-11-20
- Date of death
- 1990-09-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of North Dakota (BA|1939)
- Occupations
- poet
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Sheldon, North Dakota, USA
- Place of death
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
Members
Reviews
Beer! with a proletariat bias. While this poem is collected in two other McGrath's, this sown chapbook sets the poem out much better. This praise belongs framed in all bars.
"Hallelujah! For the People's Beer! And for all His comrades: praise!"
"Hallelujah! For the People's Beer! And for all His comrades: praise!"
While McGrath is my favorite poet and while parts three & four are excellent, particularly part four, this volume does not stand well alone. It needs the first two parts. Better yet, acquire the complete version.
Unusual chapbook for McGrath, these are very short poems, almost epigrams. "The stick of the blind man / Invents a new darkness." I can imagine McGrath telling long stories before reading each of these.
Everybody is guitly, and The Investigator will find all. Set in the future California, mechanized consumerism, Amalgamated Joy, workless stiffs, and soulless birds. An Americanized "1984" by the blacklisted author whose HUAC confrontation is still celebrated. This novel is solid if predictable. [This Coffin Has No Handles] is a much better work.
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Statistics
- Works
- 37
- Also by
- 57
- Members
- 282
- Popularity
- #82,538
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 30
- Favorited
- 2