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Poems - Softcover

Michael Strange

 
9780461967586: Poems

Synopsis

Poems by Michael Strange is a 1919 collection of lyric poetry that mingles urban modernity with intimate spiritual longing. The volume assembles long, imagistic sequences and compact lyrics that traverse New York’s streets, ferries, and night skies, casting the city as a catalyst for consciousness and desire. Across sections labeled with Roman numerals, Strange probes youth, love, longing, mortality, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing era. The Poems move from city-impressions and atmospheric portraits to personal odes such as To Nietzsche — Prophet, To Walt Whitman, Narcissus, and To a Beautiful Egoist, often addressing philosophy, art, and the nature of art’s vocation. Brimming with symbolic imagery, philosophical meditations, and a restless formal energy, the work reflects features of Symbolism and early Modernism. The 1919 Brentano’s edition situates it within American modernist poetry, exploring the tension between youth and maturity, hope and doubt, and the ache for transcendence within a bustling urban labyrinth.

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