Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Reinvention of Metropolis

Hungers on Sugar Hill examines the unstable world of the urban poet at the dawn of post-war America and how the social and political uncertainties of artistic life in a changing New York combined to create a new vision of the political poet that would change forever the American relationship to activist art. Ian Storey examines Arendt’s political poetry and its intersection with political theory and aesthetic theory. Chapters include discussions of Arendt’s political poetry as it relates to W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Randall Jarell, Heinrich Blucher Robert Gilbert, Richard Wilbur, e.e.cummings, Dylan Thomas, among others.