Name: The Great Machines: Poems and Songs from the Age of the American Railroad
Author: Hedin, Robert
ISBN: 9780877455509


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	The Great Machines: Poems and Songs from the Age of the American Railroad edited by Robert Hedin University of Iowa Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-87745-550-9 Library of Congress Classification PS595.R325G73 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.0080355 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK Here, for the first time, is a feast for anyone who has ever been beguiled by the trains that formerly thrummed through the landscapes of our lives. This entertaining and evocative anthology presents the amazing variety of poems and songs written about the American railroad in the last century and a half. Comprised of selections from both oral and written traditions, the volume celebrates the historical and cultural significance of this marvel of engineering skills. Hedin's anthology allows all readers, from the most avid railroad buff to anyone who has fond memories of train travel, to enjoy the romance of trains. TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS Introduction I. Laying the Long Rails Down from Seven Wonders of the World Cranch, Christopher Pearse To a Locomotive in Winter Whitman, Walt I Like to See It Lap the Miles Dickinson, Emily What's the Railroad to Me? Thoreau, Henry David Tamping Ties Anonymous, Railroad Section Leader's Song Anonymous, Take This Hammer Leadbelly, Southern Road Brown, Sterling A. John Henry Anonymous, Poor Paddy Works on the Railway Anonymous, Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Casey, Thomas Blue Juniata Cowley, Malcolm Work Gangs Sandburg, Carl Burying Ground by the Ties MacLeish, Archibald Southern Pacific Sandburg, Carl from Empire Builders MacLeish, Archibald from The Song of the Indian Wars Neihardt, John The Flower-Fed Buffaloes Lindsay, Vachel II. Ballads, Wrecks, Blues, and Hoboes Call Boy Brown, Sterling A. Casey Jones Seibert, T. Lawrence Wreck of the Old 97 George, David Graves Train Wreck, 1890: My Grandmother Lies Down with the Dead Hummer, T. R. Trainwrecked Soldiers Nims, John Frederich The Wreck of the Great Northern Hedin, Robert The Wreck of the Circus Train Carruth, Hayden Easy Rider Blues Jefferson, Blind Lemon In the Pines Monroe, Bill The Southern Blues Broonzy, Big Bill Long Track Blues Brown, Sterling A. Homesick Blues Hughes, Langston The Railroad Blues Anonymous, “Mystery Train”: Janis Joplin Leaves Port Arthur for Points West, 1964 Wojahn, David Railroad Bill Anonymous, Ballad: Between the Boxcars Warren, Robert Penn A Folk Singer of the Thirties Dickey, James The Wabash Cannonball Brothers, The Delmore Hallelujah, Bum Again Anonymous, The Big Rock Candy Mountains Anonymous, The Big Rock-Candy Mountain Sissman, L. E. III. The Freedom Train Runagate Runagate Hayden, Robert The Southern Road Randall, Dudley Stations Booth, Philip Porter Hughes, Langston Jim Crow Car Hughes, Langston Freedom Train Hughes, Langston Railroad Bill, a Conjure Man Reed, Ishmael The Midnight Special Leadbelly, Let the Midnight Special Bruchac III, Joseph IV. Ascending Ties (one fine day) cummings, e. e. Terminal Shapiro, Karl Limited Sandburg, Carl Night Train Francis, Robert The Gospel Train Anonymous, The Beulah Railway Anonymous, The Southern Crescent Was on Time Hudgins, Andrew Getting There Plath, Sylvia The Black Train McGrath, Thomas Little Black Train Is A-Comin' Anonymous, Lucifer in the Train Rich, Adrienne Departure Glück, Louise The Children's Train Laux, Dorianne Who Will Know Us? Soto, Gary Iris John, David St. Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train Bly, Robert Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train Wojahn, David Elegy Hugo, Richard Sister Lou Brown, Sterling A. A Sister on the Tracks Hall, Donald A Walk Carver, Raymond V. The Empire Wilderness of Freight and Rails Freight Nims, John Frederick Sunflower Sutra Ginsberg, Allen American Trains Gibbons, Reginald Right of Way Sternlieb, Barry To Freight Cars in the Air Williams, William Carlos The Boxcar Poem Young, David freight train, freight train Greenberg, Alvin For Esther Plumly, Stanley The Roundhouse Voices Smith, Dave And the Trains Go On Levine, Philip North Corridor Collier, Michael Don't You Hear That Whistle Blowin' ... Levertov, Denise Coal Train Parini, Jay Lackawanna Kinnell, Galway Evening Song Anderson, Sherwood Freight Cars Dobyns, Stephen Body and Mind Hilberry, Conrad Outside Fargo, North Dakota Wright, James Great Northern Etter, Dave Riding the Empire Builder, 1948 Wojahn, David Self-Portrait Approaching Promontory, Utah Pettit, Michael Crossing Booth, Philip Manna Tate, James To a Stranger (at the End of a Caboose) Jensen, Laura A Project for Freight Trains Young, David VI. Coach Trains across the Seamless Land Pennsylvania Station Hughes, Langston Overture to a Dance of Locomotives Williams, William Carlos On the Railway Platform Jarrell, Randall Riding the “A” Swenson, May Commuter Mueller, Lisel The Women's Room in Pennsylvania Station Daniels, Kate On My Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary I Ride on Trains Veenendaal, Cornelia Written While Riding the Long Island Rail Road Swenson, May In Cheever Country Gioia, Dana The Old Trip by Dream Train Galvin, Brendan from The Bridge Crane, Hart Low-Level Cross-Country Nemerov, Howard Train Tune Bogan, Louise Campaign Rukeyser, Muriel In the Smoking Car Wilbur, Richard From a Train Window Millay, Edna St. Vincent The Traveller Berryman, John After a Train Journey Sarton, May Train Justice, Donald On Returning to Detroit Forché, Carolyn Melodic Trains Ashbery, John Night Journey Roethke, Theodore Holding the Sky Stafford, William On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind Frost, Robert Train in the Desert—1916 Buckley, Christopher Starting from San Francisco Ferlinghetti, Lawrence VII. The Twilight Gray as Steel A Dream of Trains Doren, Mark Van City Limits Kooser, Ted Rights of Way Reiter, Thomas Riding the Rock Island through Kansas Etter, Dave At the Train Museum Pastan, Linda A Poem Written under an Archway in a Discontinued Railroad Station, Fargo, North Dakota Wright, James For a Daughter Gone Away Galvin, Brendan Note on the L & N Lattimore, Richmond The End of the Line McGrath, Thomas The Wheels of the Trains Merwin, W. S. Tearing Up the Tracks Bursk, Christopher The Tie Heyen, William The Penn Central Station at Beacon, N.Y. Ochester, Ed And as for Man Eiseley, Loren The Last Train Pastan, Linda The Last Trains Hanzlicek, C. G. Grazing Locomotives MacLeish, Archibald Acknowledgments Index REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. 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