BREAK THE HEART'S ANGER
by Paul Engle
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/No Jacket
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About This Item
Garden City , NY: Doubleday/Doran & Co, 1936. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1936 First Editon, First Thus. Gilt embosed brown linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. 3rd volume of reflective verse from gifted Iowa born Rhodes Scholar, educator, poet, literary critic, novelist & playwright Paul Hamilton Engle (1908 - 1991), Director of Iowa Writers' Workshop, & founder of the Internat'l Writing Program. 195 pgs. In the Dedication, Engle reflects: "... America, I hate you so because I love you so ... Bury my heart at Forty-second Street and Broadway, the Times Building for a stake, Run through it like a crossroads suicide, There at the busiest corner where no rest will come, The subway wheel will cut my bones, But that will be a kind of peace, Knowing that there is no rest either for my land". And from the Prologue: "America, Bastard child from all the world, Born, yet parentless ..." The major topics are: 1, Folk of the World; 2, Great Valley; 3, Chicago; 4, California; 5, New York; 6, Atlantic Passage-East; 7, England; 8, Germany; 9, Vienna; 10, Russia; 11, Notre Dame; 12, Belleau Wood; and 12, Atlantic Passage-West, followed by Epiloque at the Core of Earth.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018278
- Title
- BREAK THE HEART'S ANGER
- Author
- Paul Engle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday/Doran & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City , NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Pages
- 195
- Keywords
- Anthology, Poems, Verse, American
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