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Windy City Poems
by Allstorm, Oliver
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good w/o DJ with light shelfwear.
- Seller
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Warrenville, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago:: The Progress Publishing Co.. Very Good w/o DJ with light shelfwear.. (1931). First Edition.. With "A Century of Progress, Chicago 1933" imprint on free endpaper. Text clean, bright and unmarked. . With several "Negro dialect poems," one of which, "Pythias Bound in Black," is said to be "the longest and best Negro dialect poem written." The collection includes Irish dialect poems as well as poems about Texas and, of course, Chicago. Two poems, "Caucasian Courage" and "The Half-Sisters," are fairly controversial [and certainly racist], exhibiting he poet's belief in the social color line with "true Southern fervor." "Caucasian Courage," for example tells the story of one Mamie Blanha, an artist's model at the Art institute of Chicago, who was discharged for refusing to pose before "a negro member of an art class of white students." "Have the negro leave my presence," was her stifled, low request, "I am faint and all a-tremble--I shall never bear my breast Till his leering eyes have left me--till his smile that seems to gloat, And the seeming of his fingers have been taken from my throat." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Biblioceros Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS015469I
- Title
- Windy City Poems
- Author
- Allstorm, Oliver
- Illustrator
- Portrait frontispiece.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good w/o DJ with light shelfwear.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- The Progress Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago:
- Date Published
- (1931)
- Keywords
- With "A Century of Progress, Chicago 1933" imprint on free endpaper., Text clean, bright and unmarked., Chicago, history, race relations, World War One, Negro dialect, Irish dialect, Texas history poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- (Poetry);
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About the Seller
Biblioceros Books
Biblio member since 2005
Warrenville, Illinois
About Biblioceros Books
Biblioceros Books is an on-line bookstore operating from Warrenville, Illinois, a small town 30 miles west of the Greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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