"Seething Nation Vast & Flowing Day & Night & Dawn " Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders' three-volume, America: A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells "the story of America...a million stranded fabric / woven by billions of hands & minds". It is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document, reportage, paean and polemic.
Volume 1, 1900-1939 chronicles the birth of the American century through one world war and to the brink of a second. Not since Leaves of Grass has there been such an un-ironic attempt to give voice to "the rhapsody of a great nation / where so many sing without cease / work without halt / shoulder without shudder / to bring the Feather of Justice to every / bell tower, biome & blade of grass / in Graceful America."
Long may Sanders sing our common song, and long may his America "dwell in peace, freedom & equality / out on its spiraling arm / in the Milky Way."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Published: 12/01/1999
ISBN: 9781574231175
Pages: 325
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/17/2000 pg. 72
Library Journal 06/01/2000 pg. 134