Description: The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay (1919 Hardcover Edition)Article on the Vachel Lindsay proclaiming him a father of the Beats --- https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/classic_poems/2011/12/the_mystery_of_vachel_lindsay.html"A native of Springfield, Ill., Lindsay began his career as a self-avowed “Poe crank,” an acolyte of William Blake, and a firebrand populist/socialist figure, who—unknown to a wider world, but well known at home, though not as a poet—handed out flyers to his neighbors, chastising them for their materialistic conservatism. Lindsay epitomizes a cultural struggle between “high” and “low,” between performative modes and the purely textual, and though a thread of influence undeniably carries forward from him into the future (he is certainly one of the fathers of the Beat poets), he himself foundered there. Though the terminology did not exist in his time, he attained the status of a pop culture icon, and the socialist-mystic in him abhorred what he had become." - SlateAntique Hardcover / Macmillan / 1919 / Very Good Condition / Inscribed and Signed by Edward A. Briggs, mentor of Langston Hughes and author of 'Hounds in the Hills', 1938
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Brand: Macmillan
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Book Title: The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
Author: Vachel Lindsay
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Language: English
