What cause of death was listed for XXX?
Vachel Lindsay
Unlike Lindsay's more purely intellectual contemporaries, the poet declaimed his works from the stage, complete with the extravagant gestures of a carnival barker and old time preacher, from the beginning declaring himself to be a product of what he termed ``Higher Vaudeville'': ``I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe...'' (Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters 1935, page 62) This is evidenced by the 1931 recording he made just before his suicide, his still-radical performances of ``The Mysterious Cat'', ``The Flower-Fed Buffaloes'' and parts of ``The Congo'' exhibiting a fiery and furious, zany, at times incoherent delivery that appears to have owed more to jazz than poetry, though the highly religious Lindsay was always reluctant to align himself thus.
suicide