Title

A lucky American childhood / by Paul Engle ; foreword by Albert E. Stone.

Author

Engle, Paul, 1908-1991.

Publication

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 192 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Singular lives

Uniform Title

Singular lives.

Subjects

• Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
• Cedar Rapids (Iowa) > Social life and customs
• Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 > Childhood and youth

Contents

Foreword / Albert E. Stone -- Paul Engle: A Poem -- Eva -- Tom -- The Drug Scene -- News and the Boy -- The Importance of Uncles -- Hiawatha and My Aunt Bertha -- The Glory of the Senses -- The Horse and I -- Those Damn Jews -- Remember Memorial Day? -- That Fabulous Old Fourth of July -- Where the World Seems Right and Good - The Iowa State Fair -- Our Dangerous Thanksgiving -- Christmas Eve and My Mother's Hands -- An Old-Fashioned Christmas.

ISBN

0877455406 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95025871

OCLC

ocm33361422

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries