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The Congo and Other Poems

Vachel Lindsay

Book Overview: 

The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations to guide its spoken performance.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .East To be sung delicately, to an improvised tune. This is the order of the music of the morning:— First, from the far East comes but a crooning. The crooning turns to a sunrise singing. Hark to the calm-horn, balm-horn, psalm-horn. Hark to the faint-horn, quaint-horn, saint-horn.... To be sung or read with great speed. Hark to the pace-horn, chase-horn, race-horn. And the holy veil of the dawn has gone. Swiftly the brazen car comes on. It burns in the East as the sunrise burns. I see great flashes where the far trail turns. Its eyes are lamps like the eyes of dragons. It drinks gasoline from big red flagons. Butting through the delicate mists of the morning, It comes like lightning, goes past roaring. It will hail all the wind-mills, taunting, ringing, Dodge the cyclones, Count the milestones, On through the ranges the prairie-dog tills— Scooting . . . Read More

Community Reviews

That rhythmic, towering, well-known five star declamatory marvel, The Congo, clearly overshadows the rest of this collection of poetry.

The Firemen´s Ball held my interest, with its unusual reference to a cleansing, buddhist fire at its metaphorical center, as did four of the whimsical and wry Moon p

You can feel the influence this had on Tom Waits.

Vachel Lindsay's poetic career really launched when he hiked from Illinois to New Mexico, carrying with him copies of his pamphlet, "Poems to be Traded for Bread". That he actually made it across the country in this way is due not only to the poems, but to his performances of them. And it was, appar

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The Congo & Master of the Dance were very good. The others were alright

The works of Vachel Lindsay are living proof that poetry is made to be read aloud. Just start The Congo and you will find yourself reading it aloud by the end. To read his anti-poetry is to read some soul winning passionate poetry. A real abolitionist.