It’s on my Dreiser site at
It beautifully expresses my own feelings about my adopted city.
— Roger W. Smith
February 6, 2020
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Why, I don’t know why, but TD’s poetry leaves me cold, even as his prose lights me on fire!
Michael — We are in agreement. I debated with myself whether to even include the poem, but decided that — in the interests of completeness — I should. This TD poem is at least on topic, and it’s not as bad as many of his other ones. But Dreiser’s prose poetry is jejune and insipid.