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Adventures While Preaching The Gospel Of Beauty

Adventures While Preaching The Gospel Of Beauty

Vachel Lindsay

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Viajes y vacaciones
ISBN:
9789354756498
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Step into a world where streets glow with verse and the ordinary becomes luminous. Adventures While Preaching The Gospel Of Beauty gathers Vachel Lindsay’s restless, rippling experiments in form and feeling into a single, electrifying poetry collection.This accessible volume travels from urban American landscapes to intimate scenes of daily life, blending travel poetry, experimental verse, and art appreciation essays into a coherent whole. The poetry seeks beauty in the everyday, inviting both casual readers and serious collectors to hear echoes of Ezra Pound’s precision and a clear Wallace Stevens influence, while standing firmly in early twentieth century America’s gilded-age modernist mood. It is as much a meditation on seeing as a document of seeing, a gilded age chronicle reframed for contemporary eyes.Historically, the work marks a bridge between avant-garde impulse and mainstream sensibility, a testament to how American poets shook off old forms to celebrate modern perception. Its revival by Alpha Editions preserves a crucial voice for poetry readers and art lovers alike, offering a fresh doorway into a storied tradition.Out of print for decades, it is now republished and restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint, this edition is a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, a compact manifesto of beauty, curiosity, and humane wonder.

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