Taggard Publishes Calling Western Union
Poet involved
What happened
In 1936, Genevieve Taggard published Calling Western Union with Harper & Brothers in New York, a collection that marked her full turn toward proletarian poetry. The poems address labor struggles, economic injustice, and the lives of working women, drawing on her political activism and her observations of Depression‑era America.
Literary impact
Calling Western Union represents Taggard's most overtly political work, and it was praised by critics for its fusion of lyrical skill and revolutionary sentiment. The collection's focus on the dignity of labor and the suffering of the working class reflected her deepening commitment to socialism and established her as a leading voice of left‑wing poetry in the 1930s.
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