Twenty-five Books That Shaped America by Thomas C. Foster

Author:Thomas C. Foster
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins US

Chapter Thirteen

It Takes a Weary Man to Sing a Weary Song

The Weary Blues

The point of a literary conversation is that it is a conversation. Back and forth. Not merely accomplishment and influence but ongoing dialogue. Sometimes the nature of that talk is pretty subtle, so much so that we have to work pretty hard to see the signs and intuit what’s being said. At other times, there is no mistaking the intent, the complaint, the reply. It can be something like this, “I, too, sing America.” Now that’s how to throw down a marker. Nothing to it, just call out your national poet for leaving you out. Stake your claim for recognition as a spokesman for your people.

The man who wrote that was twenty-four years old.

Here’s the poem in question:

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