BREAK THE HEART'S ANGER

Garden City , NY: Doubleday/Doran & Co, 1936. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1936 First Editon, First Thus. Gilt embosed brown linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. 3rd volume of reflective verse from gifted Iowa born Rhodes Scholar, educator, poet, literary critic, novelist & playwright Paul Hamilton Engle (1908 - 1991), Director of Iowa Writers' Workshop, & founder of the Internat'l Writing Program. 195 pgs. In the Dedication, Engle reflects: "... America, I hate you so because I love you so ... Bury my heart at Forty-second Street and Broadway, the Times Building for a stake, Run through it like a crossroads suicide, There at the busiest corner where no rest will come, The subway wheel will cut my bones, But that will be a kind of peace, Knowing that there is no rest either for my land". And from the Prologue: "America, Bastard child from all the world, Born, yet parentless ..." The major topics are: 1, Folk of the World; 2, Great Valley; 3, Chicago; 4, California; 5, New York; 6, Atlantic Passage-East; 7, England; 8, Germany; 9, Vienna; 10, Russia; 11, Notre Dame; 12, Belleau Wood; and 12, Atlantic Passage-West, followed by Epiloque at the Core of Earth.