Aiken builds a modern city out of verse, with lights winking on at dusk, crowds in the streets, lovers and failures in their rooms, and through it all wanders the inquisitive dreamer, asking everyone what life means. The four parts move like the sections of a piece of music, shifting between voices and moods.
One of Aiken’s “symphonies” of 1920, a striking piece of early American modernism. Download the free EPUB.