dreams and nightmares of the American small town /
Robert Pinsky.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
1 online resource (98 pages) :
illustrations
The Rice University Campbell lectures
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Dawson's Landing; ii. Broadways; iii. Long Branch; iv. Simple, External Problems; v. Frenchman's Bend; vi. Shadows of Doubt; vii. Morgan's Creek; viii. Moonstone; ix. Long Branch; Acknowledgments.
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Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns-their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The cit.