{"product_id":"trees-became-torches","title":"Trees Became Torches","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e  \"Rolfe's voice is one that many of us feared was buried forever.\u003cbr\u003e         . . . He stands in the forefront of an entire 'lost generation' of left-wing\u003cbr\u003e         writers who fused artistic craft with irrepressible political commitment.\"\u003cbr\u003e         -- Alan Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Responsibility of Intellectuals: Selected \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural Commitment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \"[Rolfe's] Spanish Civil War poems may be the best written by an\u003cbr\u003e         American writer, and his McCarthy era poems brilliantly counteract the\u003cbr\u003e         often apolitical, rather socially aseptic poetry of their time.\"\u003cbr\u003e         -- Reginald Gibbons, editor of \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       The radical journalist and poet Edwin Rolfe wrote eloquently of the hardships\u003cbr\u003e         of the Great Depression, the experience of war, and McCarthy era witch-hunts.\u003cbr\u003e         More than fifty of his best poems--some beautifully lyrical and some devastatingly\u003cbr\u003e         satiric--are included in \u003ci\u003eTrees Became Torches. \u003c\/i\u003eRolfe was widely\u003cbr\u003e         known as the poet laureate of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the Americans\u003cbr\u003e         who volunteered to help defend the elected Spanish government during the\u003cbr\u003e         1936-39 civil war.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Edwin Rolfe. Edited by Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615913927036,"sku":"9780252064173","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_8e0c40d9-a7c9-440e-942e-13b9441319f6.jpg?v=1746711603","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/trees-became-torches","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}