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...midway, veteran Barker Jim Curtis broke into his spiel: "Step right up and see Digesto the Glass Eater swallow a lighted tube of neon. . . ." Selden the Stratosphere Man climbed up to his perch on a swaying, 225-ft. pole. Air jets started blowing up the dresses of screaming women. The White Horse band beat out a brassy whoop-te-do. Cold-eyed strip-teasers dished out their ancient promises as they asked the boys for an additional four bits to see "the real show...
...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY (488 pp.)-Selden Rodman - Modern Library...
...Selden Rodman's anthology (a Modern Library Giant), first published in 1939 and now issued in a revised edition, has sold 39,000 copies to date (the Modern Library's smaller, cheaper 20th Century American Poetry, edited by Conrad Aiken, has also sold 60,000 since 1927). Less compendious and more personal in his choices than Untermeyer, Rodman has arrayed his poems not chronologically but by categories to show the best points of modernity-from Hardy and Yeats to Dylan Thomas and Robert Lowell. His taste may be quarreled with by the many as it certainly will...
...James K. Selden...
Among poetry anthologies were: War Poets (edited by Oscar Williams); War and the Poet, a far more comprehensive anthology edited by Richard Eberhart and Selden Rodman. It included war poetry from all over the world and from 1800 B.C. to the present...