Meridel Le Sueur affectionately called herself "Lady Lazarus," having risen to the status of a folk poet in the 1970s after falling out of public view as a writer and socialist activist in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. During the late 1970s and early 1980s the bulk of Le Sueur's work was reissued, edited, or collected and published for the first time. Late in life, she was able to claim the voice that had been taken from her during the McCarthy era, when publishers blacklisted her and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shadowed her family. In fact, in 1979 the National Endowment for the Arts honored Le Sueur with a Senior Fellowship in Literature. Like her contemporaries Tillie Olsen and Josephine Herbst, with whose work hers is often compared, Le Sueur was not content simply to use her newfound reputation to comment on a bygone era, but instead...