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...Book of Chronicles" rather than a "Book of Revelation" is Berton Braley's description of his autobiography. Despite the sniffs of critics, Braley has made a good living out of what some people call "poetry." He has published nearly 9,000 "poems" or, according to his reckoning, ten linear miles of poetic feet...
...sung of machine tools, electric toasters, coal breakers, Mergenthalers, vacuum cleaners. He has bombarded the quality magazines. Harper's stood out against him five years, Century ten, Scribner's twelve, Atlantic, 28. All succumbed except Vanity Fair which he is still attacking. It is nothing for Minstrel Braley to turn out six verses a week for a newspaper syndicate, four for trade publications, while keeping 25 to 60 in the mail as a matter of routine. On an average, a "poem" is rejected eight times, travels 500 miles. He figures his postage overhead alone has cost...
When he was 18 young Braley got hold of a copy of Tom Hood's Rhymster, an experience which he compares to that of the youthful Keats on first looking into Chapman's Homer. Free verse and bizarre modern forms get short shrift from Rhymster Braley. The critics, in his opinion, know nothing about professional writing. And editors are a bad-mannered, incompetent, timid, unreliable lot of numbskulls with "more taboos than a South African savage...
...BERTOX BRALEY...
Managing Editor Frank A. Eaton, formerly of eminently tasteful Sportsman, could easily fill his publication with photographs supplied free of charge by tourist bureaus, articles by press agents. Instead he gathered about him for his first issue contributors of fame, among them: Sinclair Lewis, Ellis Parker Butler, Berton Braley, Corey Ford, Heywood Broun, Stephen Leacock, and Artists John Holmgren, Adolph Triedler, John Rae, Tony Sarg...