Collected Poems

This book recovers the work of a major American poet, the quality of which will reward years of reading and reflection.

A collection of more than two hundred poems, along with an extended biographical analysis, permits a comprehensive assessment of the work of a man Thomas McGrath described as one of the very best of the revolutionary poets.      Edwin Rolfe (1909-54) is best known as the poet laureate of the Abraham
        Lincoln Battalion, the Americans who volunteered to help defend the elected
        Spanish government during its 1936-39 civil war. His career began in the
        revolutionary Left in New York in the 1920s and continued into the 1950s,
        when Rolfe wrote searing poetry attacking the McCarthy-era witch-hunts.