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...Comrades," pleaded Poet Cowley, "not weaponless, not to crumple under fire. No farther, comrades." But the comrades marched right on, even in the face of "an enormous thundercrack...
...Last International" is Chief Analyst Cowley's prescient vision of the dead march of his comrades "against the Capitol...
Most inopportune book of the month is The Dry Season, a slim, sage green volume of 17 poems by Malcolm Cowley, sometime literary editor of the New Republic, now chief information analyst of the Office of Facts and Figures. Congressman Martin Dies recently charged Cowley with having had "seventy-two connections . . . with the Communist Party and its front organizations...
Then with stone walls crumbling, bar racks and asylums emptying fast, penitentiaries ablaze, and the Capitol presumably under control, Poet Cowley heard "an unchoked sigh, a moan of liberation" rise from mean streets, moonless areaways, factory gates, convict camps and the Cotton Belt...
Other poems in Cowley's new book are nostalgic American lyrics in the vein of his earlier collection, Blue Juniata. They reveal sound, minor poetic talent...