Edwin Rolfe's Collected Poems brings together the body of his work that we believe will be of greatest use to those readers with a general interest in American political poetry and with a specific interest in Rolfe himself. It gives people for the first time a comprehensive view of one of the more inventive political poets of the Great Depression, of the writer Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War regard as their poet laureate, and of a writer who used poetry as a weapon against the reactionary politics that dominated the United States in the 1950s.

These letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade document how 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and fascist cavalry on the battlefields of Spain. This chronicle enables the reader to travel with the volunteers and encounter famous writers such as Ernest Hemmingway in the struggle of a volunteer army who chose to risk their lives in the struggle against Fascism.

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.