The Congo, by Lindsay, Vachel

Macmillan, 1915. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Former owner's bookplate, otherwise unmarked. 1926 printing. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. The Congo</br></br></br></br> A Study of the Negro Race</br></br></br></br> I. Their Basic Savagery</br></br></br></br> Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,</br></br> Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,</br></br> A deep rolling bass.</br></br> Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,</br></br> Pounded on the table,</br></br> Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,</br></br> Hard as they were able,</br></br> Boom, boom, BOOM,</br></br> With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,</br></br> Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.</br></br> THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision.</br></br> I could not turn from their revel in derision.</br></br> More deliberate. Solemnly chanted.</br></br> THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Congo A Study of the Negro Race I. Their Basic Savagery Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, A deep rolling bass. Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. More deliberate. Solemnly chanted. THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files; Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song A rapidly piling climax of speed and racket. And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors, "BLOOD" screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctors, "Whirl ye the deadly voo-doo rattle, Harry the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Congo A Study of the Negro Race I. Their Basic Savagery Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, A deep rolling bass. Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. More deliberate. Solemnly chanted. THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that riverbank A thousand miles Tattooed cannibals danced in files; Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song A rapidly piling climax of speed and racket. And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors, "BLOOD" screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctors, "Whirl ye the deadly voo-doo rattle, Harry the… Read More

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xv, [1], 159, [8] pages. Contains five sections in all (including the poems on the World War), plus a 5-page introduction by Harriet Monroe. 'Published September, 1914' (title page verso); with a 7-page publisher's list and advertisements at rear. Slight rubbing to head and foot of spine and covers; slight creases to few preliminary leaves; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers; still a fairly bright copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Reprint of the First 1914 Edition by Macmillan. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine. Vachel Lindsay. INSCRIBED / SIGNED & DATED with an ORIGINAL POEM, "AN ODE TO A ROOKWOOD VASE" & ILLUSTRATION (possibly unpublished) by the poet-artist Vachel Lindsay; small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"); brown pictorial cloth with gold lettering & Art Deco heraldic "Thunderbird" design on spine + elaborately decorated front cover with facing "dragons" at top - framing deco borders - below: "Thunderbird" red-&-black escutcheon; Introduction by Harriet Monroe; xv, [xvi] + 159 pages. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931) was an American poet some called the "Prairie Troubador." He is considered a founder of modern "singing poetry", in which verses were meant to be sung or chanted--sometimes with musical accompanyment. He strove to revive poetry within its oral tradition and as a way to bring Midwestern and other… Read More