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xxvi, 105 pages ; 23 cm |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-105). |
Contents |
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes on selection of poems and editing -- American spring song -- Sister -- Untitled -- Song of the soul of Chicago -- Song of industrial America -- Song of the drunken business man -- Evening song -- Night whispers -- Reminiscent song -- Lover -- Stranger -- Unborn -- Song of the love of women -- Beam -- Song to the laugh -- We enter in -- Dirge of war -- New Testament: I -- New Testament: II -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- New Testament: IX -- New Testament: X -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- One who looked up at the sky -- Young man -- Song number one -- Song number four -- Hunger -- Death -- Healer -- Man speaking to a woman -- Testament of an old man -- Half-gods -- In a workingman's rooming house -- Thoughts of a man passed in a lonely street at night -- One who sought knowledge -- Minister of God -- Persistent lover -- Dumb man -- Young Jew -- Story teller -- Man in the brown coat -- One puzzled concerning himself -- Vagrant -- Negro on the docks at Mobile, Ala -- Word factories -- Man lying on a couch -- One who would not grow old -- At the well -- Another poet -- Man and two women standing by a wall facing the sea -- Machine song -- Morning in Chicago -- Assurance -- Bibliography. |
Summary |
Product Description: Famous for his modernist fiction, Ohio native Sherwood Anderson has long been recognized almost exclusively as a prose writer despite his prolific published output of poetry between 1915 and 1939. In "American Spring Song", editor Stuart Downs reintroduces readers to a body of work rarely seen and never before studied. With an experimental sensibility, Anderson's poetry ranges from Whitmanesque to imagist to objectivist to surrealist, making its perspectives on the human spirit and consciousness, class, and gender especially interesting and relevant to contemporary readers. Downs' comprehensive and contextual introduction reflects on Sherwood Anderson as a major American literary figure as well as on his deep commitment to his poetry. In his presentation and selection of poems, Downs illuminates a connection between Anderson's poetry and its historical, cultural, personal, and literary influences. "American Spring Song" underscores Anderson's place in American literature-prose and poetry. This important collection will be welcomed by modernist scholars, Anderson specialists, and poets alike. |
Subject |
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. (OCoLC)fst00034499
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
Downs, Stuart, 1950-
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ISBN |
0873388968 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780873388962 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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