Description: Alfred Kreymborg. Manhattan Men. 1st Edition/1st Printing published in 1929 by Coward-McCann of New York. Condition: Sound binding. Lettering on spine faded and there is fraying/rubbing to top and bottom of spine and board tips. Some small mars to decorative paper covered boards. Inside, very nice. Hinges solid. There is scattered foxing/toning to inner margins else pages are tight, clean and whole. 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" with 111 pages. Early Modernist poet, novelist, and editor Alfred Kreymborg (1883-1966) was born in New York City, the son of a cigar-store owner. A master chess player by age ten, he also played mandolin and piano before turning his energies to poetry. One of the first American poets to embrace free verse and prose poetry, Kreymborg later returned to strict formal verse, making his work—at once political and imagistic—difficult to classify as a whole. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry during his lifetime, including the prose-poetry collection Apostrophes (1910), Mushrooms (1916), Manhattan Men (1929), Ten American Ballads (1942), and No More War and Other Poems (1950) as well as the autobiography Troubadour (1925). His verse and radio plays include Lima Beans (1918), The Planets: A Modern Allegory (1938), and The Four Apes (1939). Kreymborg edited a series of literary magazines over the course of his career, often working in collaboration with some of Modernism’s most influential figures. With Man Ray, he published The Glebe, a Modernist journal that first published Ezra Pound’s Des Imagistes, and with Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Skipwith Cannell, he edited Others: A Magazine of New Verse. He edited Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts with Harold Loeb and founded the annual anthology American Caravan with Paul Rosenfeld. Kreymborg’s work as an editor, a historian, and an anthologist undeniably helped shape perceptions of the early Modernist movement. His comprehensive history of American poetry, Our Singing Strength (1929), offers particular insight into the community of Modernist poets.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Alfred Kreymborg
Publisher: Coward-McCann
Topic: Poetry
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1929
