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1921. A collection of verse from the American poet and novelist who practiced law for nearly thirty years. He is best remembered for Spoon River Anthology, a series of poems about his boyhood experiences in western Illinois; the book that would make his reputation and become one of the most popular and widely known works in all of American literature. Most of the poems in this volume have a murder or mystery theme. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1919Original Publisher: The Macmillan companySubjects: Drama / AmericanPoetry / GeneralPoetry / AnthologiesPoetry / American / GeneralPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: Barnrr twinsfrathfrIf the excursion train to PeoriaHad just been wrecked, I might have escaped withmy life -- Certainly I should have escaped this place. But as it was burned as well, they mistook me For John Allen who was sent to the Hebrew Cemetery At Chicago, And John for me, so I lie here. It was bad enough to run a clothing store in this town, But to be buried here -- ach! Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel -- Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens -- But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof.Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,Ballades by the score with the same old thought:The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;And what is love but a rose that fades ?Life all around me here in the village:Tragedy, comedy, valor and truth,Courage, constancy, heroism, failure -- All in the loom, and oh what patterns!Woodlands, meadows, streams and rivers -- Blind to all of it all my life long.Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics,While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines ?pmltne BarrettAlmost the shell of a woman after the surgeon'sknife!And almost a year to creep back into strength, Till the dawn of our wedding decennial Found me my seeming self again. We walked the forest together, By a path of soundless moss and turf. ... ... Read more

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1920. American poet and novelist who practiced law for nearly thirty years. Spoon River Anthology is the book that made his reputation and is regarded as one of the most popular and widely known works in all of American literature. Mitch Miller, one of his novels, is mostly about growing up in Illinois. The book begins: Supposin' you was lyin' in a room and was asleep or pretty near asleep; and bein'; asleep you could hear people talkin' but it didn't mean nothin' to you-just talk; and you kind of knew things was goin' on around you, but still you was way off in your sleep and belonged to yourself as a sleeper, and what was goin' on didn't make no difference to you; and really, supposin' you was tryin' to get back into deeper sleep before you heard these things. And then supposin' now and then as your eyes rolled back into your head while sleepin' you saw through the lids-not tryin' to look, but your eyes just saw as they rolled past the open place between the lids-and you saw squares of light and dark, or maybe roundish blurs. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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And it happened then My mind was hard, as muscles of the back Grow hard resisting cold or shock or strain And need the osteopath to be made supple, To give the nerves and streams of life a chance. ... Read more

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1921. A collection of verse from the American poet and novelist who practiced law for nearly thirty years and is best remembered for Spoon River Anthology, a series of poems about his boyhood experiences in western Illinois, and the book that would make his reputation and become one of the most popular and widely known works in all of American literature. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more