Research Catalog

Title

Irene : selected writings of Irene Paull / [preface by Meridel Le Sueur].

Author

Paull, Irene, 1908-1981

Publication

Minneapolis : Midwest Villages & Voices, c1996.

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Details

Description

xii, 255 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 1996

Alternative Title

• Works. 1996
• Selected writings of Irene Paull

Subjects

• Literary collections
• Jews > United States > Literary collections
• Jewish women > United States > Literary collections
• Social problems > United States > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- 1. Duluth -- To die among strangers -- The wrath of Deborah -- The war against the Gentiles -- Duluth "Kasrilevka" -- 2. We're the people -- So I visited a transient camp -- Eight bucks and one meal -- To one who died for us -- And so let freedom ring -- She who died without living -- Spring song -- in occupied Europe -- Three little girls went skating -- "Why did they treat us so?" -- Ballad of a lumberjack -- Murdered on a picket line -- He hit Maxie below the belt -- Heil, Lindbergh! -- Letter to my grandfather -- Jailed for her thoughts -- My friend you're slipping -- Sittin' on a rail -- A baby born in a sausage truck -- Justice in Connor's kingdom -- A leader who went haywire -- I checked and double-checked -- To a young girl graduate -- Worker's paper.
• 3. Love and sorrow -- Mama's boy -- Song of the Warsaw Ghetto -- At the gates of the future -- Picket line in October -- Our captain -- lives! -- Farewell, sweet warrior -- Operation Georgia! -- The song of a deportee -- Wall Street honors the unknown soldier -- Oh, to be a billionaire! -- Of love and sorrow -- "That's Jim" -- Lay a flower -- 4. There will always be the people -- To Bill Heikkila, American -- Petition and prayer in Washington -- For Rose Sobell -- We will remember you, Cuba -- "Why are you marching?" -- "Mom, why did you go?" -- My grandfather's ghost in Hattiesburg -- One Mississippi morning ... -- Nothing can happen to Papa's heart -- The people are a river -- 5. To Hank -- The blessings of Solomon -- Freedom is a lonely hill -- Everybody's studying us -- My winter lover -- Acceptance speech -- Grandma's battle cry -- About Irene Paull -- Bibliography.

ISBN

0935697071

LCCN

^^^96075442^

OCLC

• 36138456
• SCSB-11125490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library