dreams and nightmares of the American small town /
First Statement of Responsibility
Robert Pinsky.
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Chicago :
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University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (98 pages) :
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illustrations
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Series Title
The Rice University Campbell lectures
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.