Poets of America: 20th Century. Rare anthology.
Poets of America: 20th Century. Rare anthology.
[Poets of America: 20th Century]. Poety Ameriki: XX vek.
Compiled by Mikh. Zenkevich and Ivan Kashkin.
Moskva, GIKhL, 1939.
8vo, portrait, 288 pp.
In original cloth.
Some soiling, modern endpapers.
One of 10.000 copies printed.
This anthology includes Russian translations as well as biographical sketches and portraits of the following authors: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, John Gould Fletcher, Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Walsh, Alfred Kreymborg, Louis Untermeyer, Robinson Jeffers, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Arturo Giovannitti, Michael Gold, Joseph Kalar, and A. B. Magil.
Additionally, the anthology features the lyrics of songs and ballads by Joe Hill, Aunt Molly Jackson, Ben Lucien Burman, Lawrence Gellert (collected and published 'Negro Songs Of Protest'), Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes.