{"product_id":"man-song","title":"Man-Song","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eOriginally published just months after his marriage to Mona Martinsen, the poems collected in \u003ci\u003eMan-Song\u003c\/i\u003e celebrate passionate love and offer many personal glimpses of the young John Neihardt. Unashamedly erotic, they reveal his capacity for love at age twenty-eight.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePoems like \"A Vision of Woman\" and \"Women-Wine\" show the lover's prejudices and greedy need for caresses and strong embraces. Those like \"To Volney Streamer\" are addressed to male friends and anticipate the theme of male bonding that runs throughout his work. Because passion takes various forms, \u003ci\u003eMan-Song\u003c\/i\u003e also include lyrics of the warrior little like the war chants Neihardt later learned from Plains Indians. \"Battle Cry,\" a poem that was recited by Clarence Darrow and Samuel Gompers, is an example of the fighting songs current in the European avant-garde preceding World War I.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNeihardt was beginning his struggle to reconcile the demands of the robustly physical life with spiritual insight. His love poems for the American West were still to come, but in \u003ci\u003eMan-Song\u003c\/i\u003e he is already exploring the vast tract between the essentially erotic and the divine that would be cultivated in his later work. This edition is the first complete reprinting of the work since 1909.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John G. Neihardt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615803072892,"sku":"9780803233324","price":41.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780803233324_4f8c43e6-ea4a-417f-8bcb-4a1cc1f98115.jpg?v=1726576843","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/man-song","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}