When City of Discontent  was first published, it bore the subtitle         "An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story         of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city,         that state, and that nation." But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's         Lincoln, not so much a biography as a poetic interpretation of         the life of one of the state's leading poets of the first half of the         century.       "A lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves         to be remembered. . . . A book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and         not soon forget."         -- Library Journal