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...mother and seldom have five boys picked up so much character from a mother (and father) in private. They are independent and unselfconscious, too mature to expect Christmas more than once a year but too normal to settle for a single Halloween. Every Sunday evening they recite poems???from Milton to Hopkins?that they have learned during the week; on other nights they play chess and Monopoly with their father, and hold word contests with their mother. She has retired from "therapy games," and is planning a casual piece on how to lose quickly at checkers...
...Altgeld was Governor of Illinois in 1896. ? From "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" in Collected Poems???Vachel Lindsay?Macmillan...
...POEMS???E. E. Cummings?Dial-Press ($2.50). Upon the pages of a far haughtier, a far less circulated magazine* than that for which Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore...
...TAMAR AND OTHER POEMS???Robinson Jeffers?Petyr G. Boyle...
...COLLECTED POEMS???Vachel Lindsay? Macmillan...