A Handy Guide For Beggars

A Handy Guide For Beggars

Vachel Lindsay

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2025
ISBN:
9789371341479
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Hungry for adventure and hallowed by verse this is the beggar s map for the heart. A Handy Guide For Beggars is Vachel Lindsay s rollicking, poetic travel-memoir that turns penniless travels in the South into an art form.Lindsay s voice leads readers through Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in a richly comic and humane account of poetic wanderlust. Equal parts travelogue, performance manifesto, and practical handbook, the book chronicles the author s poetic fraternity explorations and lays out whimsical yet shrewd rules of beggary for poets: how to solicit alms with dignity, turn street-corner recitals into cultural encounters, and survive creatively on the road. These poetic adventures in America read as both a beggars’ guidebook and a literary travel memoir, blending itinerant survival strategies with lyric charm.Historically significant and long out of print, this edition has been carefully restored and republished by Alpha Editions for today s and future generations. More than a reprint, this release is a collector s item and a cultural treasure: annotated for clarity, refurbished in type and design, and positioned for modern readers and classic literature collectors alike. Perfect for those curious about poetic journey across America, Vachel Lindsay adventures, and the eccentric rules that made a poet s poverty into performance art a must-read for anyone drawn to poetic survival strategies and the quest to turn penniless travels in the South into enduring art.

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