Description |
xxxi, 183 pages ; 21 cm |
Series |
Prairie State books.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxi). |
Contents |
Chicago -- Sketch Masses -- Lost he harbor -- They will say -- Mill-Doors Halsted street car -- Clark street bridge -- Passers-by -- The walking man of Rodin -- Subway -- The shovel man -- A teamster's farewell -- Fish crier -- Picnic boat -- Happiness -- Muckers -- Blacklisted -- Graceland -- Child of the Romans -- The right to grief -- Mag -- Onion days -- Population drifts -- Cripple -- A fence -- Anna Imroth -- Working girls -- Mamie -- Personality -- Cumulatives -- To certain journeyman -- Chamfort -- Limited -- The has-been -- In a back alley -- A coin -- Dynamiter -- Ice handler -- Jack -- Fellow citizens -- Nigger -- Two neighbors -- Style -- To Beachey--1912 -- Under a hat rim -- In a breath -- Bath -- Bronzes -- Dunes -- On the way -- Ready to kill -- To a contemporary bunkshooter -- Skyscraper -- Fog -- Pool -- Jan Kubelik -- Choose -- Crimson -- Whitelight -- Flux -- Kin -- White shoulders -- Losses -- Troths -- Killers -- Among the red guns -- Iron -- Murmurings in a field hospital -- Statistics -- Fight -- Buttons -- And they obey -- Jaws -- Salvage -- Wars -- The road and the end -- Choices -- Graves -- Aztec mask -- Momus -- The answer -- o a dead man -- Under -- A Sphinx -- Who am I? -- Our prayer of thanks -- At a window -- Under the harvest moon -- The great hunt -- Monotone -- Joy -- Shirt -- Aztec -- Two -- Back yard -- On the breakwater -- Mask -- Pearl Fog -- I sang -- Follies -- June -- Nocturne in a deserted brickyard -- Hydrangeas -- Theme in yellow -- Between two hills -- Last answers -- Window -- Young sea -- Bones -- Pals -- Child -- Poppies -- Child moon -- Margaret -- Poems done on a late night car -- It is much -- Trafficker -- Harrison street court -- Soiled dove -- Jungheimer's -- Gone -- Dreams in the dusk -- Docks -- All day long -- Waiting -- From the shore -- Uplands in May -- A dream girl -- The plow boy -- Broadway -- Old woman -- The noon hour -- 'Boes -- Under a telephone pole -- I am the people, the mob -- Government -- Languages -- Letters to dead imagists -- Sheep -- The red sun -- The mist -- The junk man -- Silver nails -- Gypsy. |
Summary |
Poems celebrate the city and its ordinary citizens, and look at World War I and the struggle of working people to succeed. |
Subject |
Chicago (Ill.) -- Poetry.
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Added Author |
Hallwas, John E.
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ISBN |
9780252062346 (pb : alk. paper) |
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0252062345 (pb : alk. paper) |
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