San Antonio College Library

A collection of American songs, poems, and ballads, grouped under such headings as "Children's Songs", "Love", "Wars and Other Disasters", and "Work Chants."

James Sullivan presents a brief history of American poetry broadsides from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. He then explores the extensive use of the broadside during one era, the 1960s, showing how it refigured the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others and situating it for specific cultural uses within the social and political struggles of the times. Sullivan's introduction lays out the project's theoretical...