America is not all traffic lights : poems of the Midwest / selected by Alice Fleming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleming, Alice, 1928-2024.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle West--Description and travel--Juvenile poetry.

Middle West.

Middle West--Poetry.

American poetry.

Travel.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 68 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, [1976]

Summary:

An anthology of poems reflecting the ambience of the Midwest through such voices as William Rose Benét, Carl Sandburg, and Sherwood Anderson.

Contents:

Crossing Kansas by train / Donald Justice

Lucas Park (St. Louis) / Paul Southworth Bliss

Illinois farmer / Carl Sandburg

Jesse James / William Rose Benét

Chicago/3 hours / Victor Hernandez Cruz

Midwest / John Frederick Nims

LaSalle Street / Rachel Albright

Part of the darkness / Isabella Gardner

Midwest town / Ruth de Long Peterson

Evening Song / Sherwood Anderson

July in Indiana / Robert Fitzgerald

A blessing / James Wright

Finale / Carl Sandburg

I rise, I rise / Osage Chant

Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery / Gwendolyn Brooks

Moonlight / W. G. Vincent

Waldheim Cemetery / Robert Sward

Iowa / Michael Dennis Browne

Old Dubuque / Dave Etter

Derricks / R. R. Cuscaden

Old man, phantom dog / Frederick Eckman

To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson

A vegetable, I will not be / Donna Whitewing

An ordinary evening in Cleveland / Lewis Turco

A siding near Chillicothe / Richard Lattimore

Three kinds of pleasures / Robert Bly

Detroit / Donald Hall

Two beers in Argyle, Wisconsin / Dave Etter

Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright

Sold / R. R. Cuscaden

Steel mills / Rachel Albright

Kansas boy / Ruth Lechlitner.

ISBN:

0316285900

9780316285902

OCLC:

1583937