Minna and Myself

Minna and Myself

Our thanks to the following publications, for their kindness in permitting us to reprint, in this volume, poems that have appeared in their pages: The Little Review; Poetry; the New Republic; the Century; the New York Tribune; the Touchstone; the Seven Arts; the Pagan; the Egoist. Copyright, 1918. Pagan Publishing Co. New York {3} DEDICATED BY BOTH OF US TO Fedya Ramsay It is hard for me to realize that this is a first volume of verse. Most of the initial ventures that have passed under my jaundiced eye have been precisely what such early collections are expected to be. They were, as Wilde expressed it somewhere, promissory notesthat are never met.... But though it is hard for me to believe that this is a first book, it is still harder for me to believe that this is Maxwell Bodenheims first book. In these days of the much advertised poetic renaissance, when the Dial out-radicals the Little Review, and even the New York Tribune prints vers-libre on its editorial page, I expected to see nothing less than Bodenheims Collected works.... This pleasure will evidently have to be deferred.... Meanwhile, here is an indication, and no slight one, of how distinguished and decorative that collection will be. Without Kreymborgs caustic and acerb irony, or Johns fluent lyricism, Bodenheim has something that neither they nor, for that matter, any of his colleagues in Others possess. I refer to his extreme sensitivity to words. Words, under his hands, have unexpected growths; placid nouns and sober adjectives bear fantastic fruit. It is a strange and often magic potion he brews from them; dark and fiery liquids that he pours into curiously designed cups. Sometimes he gets drunk with his own distillation, and reels between preciosity and incoherence. Sometimes the mixture is so strong that even his metaphors, crowding about each other, become inextricably mixed. But as {8}a rule, Bodenheim is as clear-headed as he is colorful. Among the younger men he has no superior in his use of the verbal nuance. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59203
Author: Bodenheim, Maxwell
Release Date: Apr 4, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English