The Viet Nam War Days: Tom as Teacher and Activist

Dale Jacobson presents recollections of Thomas McGrath as his teacher, illustrating McGrath’s commitment to activism and political poetry as methods of altering consciousness. He places McGrath’s views on politics and poetry in the context of the sixties upheavals, showing how McGrath, even as he embraced the activism of the sixties, also saw its historical limitations and tried to communicate to students a larger historical context. Jacobson presents McGrath’s teaching on both an intellectual and personal level.