Writers in revolt: the Anvil anthology / edited by Jack Conroy and Curt Johnson.

Poems and stories originally published in three periodicals: the Anvil, the New Anvil, and the Rebel Poet.

Contains introduction by Jack Conroy.

Contributors section at the end contains short biographies of all the contributing writers.

Stories A holiday in Texas / Nelson Algren -- Within the city / Nelson Algren -- Dry summer / Sonora Babb -- Telephone call / J.S. Balch -- Love story / Milen Brand -- Now he is safe / Ashley Buck -- Daughter / Erskine Caldwell -- Blue boy / Erskine Caldwell -- Down in Happy Hollow / Jack Conroy -- A good recommendation / Paul F. Corey -- On the outside / August W. Derleth -- Desert incident / Stuart David Engstrand -- Reverend Father Gilhooley / James T. Parrell -- Aspirin / Leonard Feinberg -- Mussolini's nightmare / Michael Gold -- Dr. Brown's decision / Langston Hughes -- We are nurtured / Boris Israel -- In season / Eugene Joffe -- Collar / Joseph Kalar -- Wake to the hunting / I.L. Kissen -- Reunion / Arcady Leokum -- Sequel to love / Meridel Le Sueur -- They follow us girls / Meridel Le Sueur -- Below the belt / Saul Levitt -- Down the skidway / H.H. Lewis -- Not without propaganda / Louis Mamet -- Fingers / Robert Ramsey / Jesus saves / Yasha Robanoff -- Beyond the mountain / John C. Rogers -- The gaffer / Marin Savela -- The long trip / Del Smith -- Sour grapes / Jesse Stuart -- Homecoming / Tom Tracy -- An interview with Domino Bashfield / Joseph Vogel -- The paid nurse / William Carlos Williams -- The heel's progress / Milton U. Wiser -- The thunder of God / Frank Yerby --

Poems Makers of music / Nelson Algren -- Program for appeasement / Nelson Algren -- A walk in time of war / John Malcolm Brinnin -- Hurry / Margarette Ball Dickson -- Confidential / Alvin Foote -- The kiss of spring / Miriam Hershenson -- Ballad of Lenin / Langston Hughes -- well, well, blind man / Boris J. Israel -- July Twenty-eight, 1932 / Orrick Johns -- Let me laugh / George Kauffman -- The wolves / Ruth Lechlitner -- Penance / Robert Cranston Lee -- Liberal / H.H. Lewis -- Drought / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni -- poem to be nameless / Thomas McGrath -- Lenin / Kenneth Patchen -- and never never need they know / William Peterson -- Property / Kari Jay Shapiro -- Social worker / Walter Snow -- Next summer / T.A. Stancliffe --

"The early work on many American writers who later became famous, and the more radical stories and poems of established writers, first appeared in the pages of The Anvil, The New Anvil and The Rebel Poet. These influential little magazines, founded and edited by B.C. Hagglund, a printer, and Jack Conroy, a young 'proletarian' writer, reflected a new literary renaissance emerging in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest through the depression years." - from the dust jacket.