Sunday, February 3, 2019
Requiem by Leonard Cline
One of Cline's poems that didn't make it into After-Walker was "Requiem," which appeared in The Liberator in March 1920. It is essentially predictive of Cline's later life, for in his dark hours of anguish in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter, Cline turned back to religion, and turned back to his ex-wife Louise.
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Speaking of Cline's work, in the 1920s Cline wrote an essay on his home state of Michigan. The essay is called "Michigan : the Fordizing of a
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The essay was reprinted with several other essays in the book "These United States : Portraits of America from the 1920s" by Daniel H Borus, which was published in 1992.
That essay originally appeared in The Nation for 1 November 1922. It's quite a good essay, and it earned Cline a lot of opprobrium in Michigan for his daring to be critical of Henry Ford. It was collected in These United States (vol. 1, 1923), edited by Ernest Gruening. The Borus-edited volume was a kind of retrospective reprint of the original. I met Borus once in Ithaca, not long before his book was published by Cornell University Press.
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