A representative selection from the work of one of America's most distinguished writers.
Publisher's Note
p. vii
Foreword
p. ix
Poet
Introduction
p. 3
Chicago Poems [1916]
Chicago
p. 4
Happiness
p. 5
Mag
p. 5
Personality
p. 5
Skyscraper
p. 6
Gone
p. 8
Cornhuskers [1918]
Prairie
p. 9
Illinois Farmer
p. 15
Wilderness
p. 16
Bilbea
p. 17
Cool Tombs
p. 17
Smoke and Steel [1920]
Jazz Fantasia
p. 18
Calls
p. 18
Evening Waterfall
p. 19
Paula
p. 19
How Much?
p. 20
Wind Song
p. 20
Night Stuff
p. 21
White Ash
p. 21
For you
p. 22
Slabs of the Sunburnt West [1922]
The Windy City
p. 24
Upstream
p. 35
Good Morning, America [1928]
Nine Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry
p. 36
Baby Song of the Four Winds
p. 36
A Couple
p. 37
Early Hours
p. 38
Between Worlds
p. 38
Phizzog
p. 39
They Ask: is God, Too, Lonely?
p. 39
Sea Chest
p. 40
We have Gone Through Great Rooms Together
p. 40
Maybe
p. 40
Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz
p. 41
Hells and Heavens
p. 41
Bundles
p. 41
Many Hats
p. 42
Complete Poems [1950]
The Fireborn are at Home in Fire
p. 49
The Long Shadow of Lincoln: a Litany
p. 51
Worms and the Wind
p. 54
Number Man
p. 54
New Poems [1957]
Brainw Ashing
p. 56
Kisses Forgotten
p. 56
Sleep Impression
p. 56
Theorem
p. 57
Man the Moon Shooter
p. 57
Psalm of the Bloodbank
p. 60
Acquaintance with Death, Sir
p. 61
Shenandoah Journey
p. 61
Star Silver
p. 62
Consolation Sonata
p. 63
The People, Yes [1936]
p. 65
Storyteller and Poet for Children
Introduction
p. 91
Rootabaga Stories [1922]
How They Broke Away to go to the Rootabaga Country
p. 92
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who was in it
p. 97
The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy
p. 99
Rootabaga Pigeons [1923]
Slipfoot and How he Nearly Always Never Gets what He goes After
p. 102
How Bozo the Button Buster Busted all His Buttons When a Mouse Came
p. 104
How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass
p. 106
New Stories [1957]
The Five Marvelous Pretzels
p. 109
The Three Nice Mice
p. 110
Early Moon [1930]
Introduction
p. 113
Primer Lesson
p. 114
Splinter
p. 114
Theme in Yellow
p. 114
Sea-Wash
p. 115
Buffalo Dusk
p. 115
Potomac Town in February
p. 115
Child Moon
p. 116
Small Homes
p. 116
Summer Stars
p. 116
Baby Toes
p. 116
Helga
p. 117
Slippery
p. 117
Complete Poems [1950]
Little Girl, be Careful what You Say
p. 118
Paper I
p. 118
Paper II
p. 118
Doors
p. 119
Boxes and Bags
p. 119
Arithmetic
p. 120
Singer and Song-Seeker
Introduction
p. 123
The American Songbag [1927]
The Colorado Trail
p. 126
Hello, Girls
p. 127
In the Days of Old Rameses
p. 128
When the Curtains of Night are Pinned Back
p. 129
By'm by
p. 130
Novelist
Introduction
p. 135
Remembrance Rock [1948]
Prologue
p. 136
The First Comers
p. 140
The Arch Begins
p. 169
The Arch Holds
p. 201
Epilogue
p. 234
Autobiographer
Introduction
p. 255
Always the Young Strangers [1953]
Man-Child
p. 256
The House on Berrien Street
p. 259
Father and Mother
p. 262
School Days
p. 266
Along Berrien Street
p. 269
First Paydays
p. 273
Theme in Shadow and Gold
p. 278
Hobo
p. 281
Soldier
p. 288
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