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GUEST BOOK-Witter Bynner-Knopf...
GUEST BOOK-Witter Bynner-Knopf...
Among U. S. literary groups, the writers who have settled in New Mexico have a reputation for being the most humorless of the lot. But in Witter Bynner New Mexico can claim at least one poet who knows and appreciates a joke, and who has the distinction of being the author of a major literary hoax. In 1916 when U. S. excitement over free verse, imagism, vorticism, and other strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions...
...Host Bynner protects most of his guests, gives few specific characteristics by which they could be identified. In his amused description of the liberal- A handsome profile, an artistic tog And just enough of capitalistic...
...Author Bynner sets the tone of his Guest Book, but in such poems as Liar and Oats he sums up complex careers and relationships in a few concise lines, drops many a casual, oldfashioned, epigrammatic observation. In Widower he finds lovely symbols and lines to express his favorite theme of loneliness...