Publisher's Synopsis
'Starved Rock' is a real successor [to 'Spoon River anthology']; one feels in reading it that a movement has been going on in the poet's life and that this poetry comes out of it; it has humor and satire and a desire that leaps beyond life and that finds its symbol in that rock in the great valley that stands as a monument to vanished races and lost adventurers." (New Repub) Among the poems of the book are: Hymn to the dead; Creation; The negro ward; William Shakespeare; Chicago; At Sagamore Hill; I shall go down into this land; Neither faith nor beauty can remain.
