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d. 1931 United States
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
Also known as: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
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"Factory Windows Are Always Broken", st. 1
The Congo, and Other Poems (1914)
Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
The Congo, and Other Poems (1914)
Drabs from the alleyways and drug fiends pale—
General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems (1913)
I have sung my songs to my own tunes for most of the English departments of the state universities of the forty-eight states of the nation, and the English departments of other universities and colleges; and I have been recalled to many of these seven and eight times, which matters are a source of great pride to me. And I have brought out three books where the songs were based on my own pen-and-ink pictures.
What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)
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