Mid-American Chants
By: Sherwood Anderson
Edition: Trade paperback edition
Publisher: Quale Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Florence, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780974450346
Description: Originally published in 1918, Mid-American Chants is Sherwood Anderson's first book of poems. Undeniably influenced by Walt Whitman, Anderson seeks in this collection to sing of the "heart" (geographically) of the United States, and to sing of the rising age of industrialism. The lines are long, and the rhythms almost prosiac; in fact, some view these poems as prototypical American prose poems.