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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Plowman Sings

Plowman Sings

Jack, Zachary Michael

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0761842829
ISBN13: 9780761842828
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 131
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Jay G. Sigmund stands as America's most forgotten Regionalist writers of the Jazz Age. Championed by Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, and Grant Wood, the Iowa writer/insurance man helped make his home state the epicenter of a national Regionalist Movement. The literary stir Sigmund created caused even popular Boston-based critic E. J. O'Brien to declare Iowa as America's new literary center and to choose six of Sigmund's short stories among the best of 1930. From 1921 to 1937, the late-blooming, dark-horse Sigmund shocked East Coast literati with glowing New York Times reviews while delighting tens of thousands of readers each week with down-to-earth verse in the biggest and best Midwestern dailies. The man Ilya Tolstoy hailed as an American Chekhov and Maupassant, published over 1200 poems, 125 short stories, and over 25 plays while simultaneously working full-time as an insurance executive.

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