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The Great Machines: Poems and Songs from the Age of the American Railroad
University of Iowa Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-87745-550-9 Library of Congress Classification PS595.R325G73 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.0080355
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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. See other books on: Hedin, Robert | Railroad travel | Railroads | Songs | Texts See other titles from University of Iowa Press |
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The Great Machines: Poems and Songs from the Age of the American Railroad
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edited by Robert Hedin
University of Iowa Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-87745-550-9
Paper: 978-0-87745-550-9
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.
REVIEWS
“What a plum pudding this is. What raisins! What plums! All the railroad songs and poems I know are here, plus about three times as many more. A feast for railroad lovers.”—Noel Perrin
“Hedin's imaginative and thorough work fills a void. This volume should please a range of readers: academics, folklorists, railroad enthusiasts, and everyone interested in the literary and cultural impact of the iron horse and flanged wheel.”—H. Roger Grant
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
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