Author Archive for: ‘Laurence Goldstein’

Uploaded 29 May 1998 | Updated 31 July 1998 © This article is a condensed version of the first chapter from Goldstein, Laurence (1994)The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. You are invited to visit the Press’s website:. Vachel Lindsay was reaching the height of his powers when he began to consider the …

Poems by Vachel Lindsay Uploaded 29 May 1998 A RHYME ABOUT AN ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING SIGN I look on the specious electrical light Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white, Wickedly red or malignantly green Like the beads of young Senegambian queen. Showing, while millions of souls hurry on, The virtues of collars, from sunset till dawn, By dart or by tumble of …