Kemp begins with the mother he never knew and his boyhood in a smoky Ohio steel town, then follows his own restless youth: running away, riding freight trains, shipping out to sea, odd jobs, an old milkman who knew Emerson and Thoreau, and his first attempts to become a poet and win a place among the writers he admired.
A vivid 1922 autobiography by the self-styled tramp poet, for readers of American vagabond literature. Download the free EPUB.