I Hear Men Talking

Revised Edition

Meridel Le Sueur

Written in the 1930s by Le Sueur, I Hear Men Talking wasn’t published until 1984. It was intended as a companion to her city novel, The Girl, and depicts life in rural Iowa and a rural town during the Depression. The town’s complacency in the face of the social and economic crisis of the Depression is reflected when it is nearly destroyed during a revolt led by frustrated farmers. This edition includes an introduction by Linda Ray Pratt, professor of English at the University of Nebraska, and an afterword by the author.

“Meridel Le Sueur’s work stands, urgent and unique, at that ‘bloody crossroads’ where politics and culture meet. . . . Modernist literary experimentalism engages a distinctively feminist conception of how people defend themselves and organize for change.”—Paul Lauter, Trinity College

5½ x 8½ inches • 160 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-2-6 • $13.95