Book
Singing America
Item details
- ISBN: 0670861502
- ISBN: 9780670861507
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Physical Description:
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160 p. : ill ; 27 cm. - Publisher: New York : Viking, 1995.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | "An Albion book"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 159) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- There are no people song / Navaho -- Peregrine White and Virginia Dare / Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét -- The noise of the village / Chippewa -- "This-- is the land" / Emily Dickinson -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- The fields / W.S. Merwin -- The melting pot / Dudley Randall -- The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf / Henry David Thoreau -- Song of the sky loom / Pueblo -- Shine, perishing republic / Robinson Jeffers -- Walk softly / Shaker anthem -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- "In the desert" / Stephen Crane -- A clear midnight / Walt Whitman -- Paul Revere's ride ; From To the driving cloud / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Song of Sitting Bull / Teton Sioux -- Indian names / Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- The sunrise call / Pueblo -- Cowboy's gettin'-up holler -- "I'll tell you how the sun rose--" / Emily Dickinson -- The days of forty-nine -- The miners came in forty-nine -- The buffalo skinners -- Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg -- A handful of gospel love / Shaker song -- Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- No more auction block -- Runagate runagate / Robert Hayden -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Taboo to boot / Ogden Nash -- I'm a good old rebel -- Johnny fill up the bowl -- Shiloh, a requiem (April 1862) / Herman Melville -- A twilight song / Walt Whitman -- Jesse James -- The hill ; Fiddler Jones ; Dillard Sissman / Edgar Lee Masters -- Prairie fires / Hamlin Garland -- What's the railroad / Henry David Thoreau -- "I like to see it lap the miles" / Emily Dickinson -- The line-gang / Robert Frost -- Casey Jones -- American names / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Language for America ; Broadway / Walt Whitman -- Don't let them chip away at our language / Kitty Tsui -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- A pact ; N.Y. / Ezra Pound -- Upper Broadway / Adrienne Rich -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Slim in hell / Sterling A. Brown -- "And this is good old Boston" -- The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot -- Meeting-house hill / Amy Lowell -- Wild peaches / Elinor Wylie -- The New-England boy's song about Thanksgiving Day / Lydia Maria Child -- Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Ploughing on Sunday / Wallace Stevens -- Grandfather / Michael S. Harper -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Childhood / Margaret Walker -- Pastoral / William Carlos Williams -- Shimmer / James Schuyler -- Belle Isle, 1949 / Philip Levine -- A walk / Gary Snyder -- The lake / Edgar Allan Poe -- "The crickets sang" / Emily Dickinson -- Sunset song / Pueblo -- "Hesh, little baby, don't say a word" -- John Henry -- Sadie and Maud ; of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The true-blue American / Delmore Schwartz -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Dirge / Kenneth Fearing -- Pastures of plenty ; This land is your land / Woody Guthrie -- "next to of course god america i" / e.e. cummings -- An inconvenience / John Raven -- A true account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara -- Autobiography / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The new apartment, Minneapolis / Linda Hogan -- Earth always endures / Mandan -- Ithaca / Katharyn Howd Machan -- At cove on the crooked river / William Stafford -- I know a man / Robert Creeley. |
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