Vachel Lindsay’s 1920 collection opens with a prose word on California, the photoplay and Saint Francis, then breaks into the performance poems he called rhymes in the American language. Here are the title poem, Kalamazoo, John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, poems on Moses and Rameses II, and rhymed scenarios for the movie star Mae Marsh.
Loud, comic and visionary verse meant to be read aloud, from the poet of The Congo. Download the free EPUB.