Douglasjluman at Old Poetry

I am a scholar of Illinois poets and Modernism; I am currently a student of literary criticism and theory at Bradley University, Peoria Illinois.

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Agamemnon Blues at allpoetry
skull farmer
never learned to reap
only what he had sown
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He called again ten years later. But, Vern still didn't fuck with phones. Jim died of cancer that year.
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on Chicago by Carl Sandburg, on December 2, 2006
When Harriet Monroe (founder of Poetry Magazine) "found" Sandburg (he sent her this and other poems; he wasn't convinced that they were 'poetry'), she is said to have walked into another room and presented it to a colleague and claimed that she didn't know what to do with it.

Truly, we are seeing a revoltion in form and content from the turn of the century (Modernism). It is all too sad that Sandburg has gone by the wayside in teaching curricula.