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Then, instead of quoting Rhymester Edgar Guest, President Reynolds launched his poetical boom with three stanzas of verse composed in collaboration with two newsworthy U. S. poets, Joseph Auslander (No Traveller Returns) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, Audrey Wurdemann (The Seven Sins). First stanza, "fabricated" by Mr. Reynolds, who usually devises his rhymes while shaving...
Third stanza by Audrey Wurdemann...
Last year one of the major surprises in the Pulitzer Prize announcements was the award of the poetry prize to Audrey Wurdemann, 24-year-old Seattle girl, for her second book. Bright Ambush. While most critics found Miss Wurdemann's verse promising and fluent, it was also characterized as conventional, frail, filled with echoes of stock poetic attitudes and phrases. Last week Miss Wurdemann's third book revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven...
While the individual narratives are surprisingly detailed and localized, readers are likely to find Audrey Wurdemann's symbols too conventional to remain long in the memory, her lines too diffuse to communicate vivid images...
...Author. Audrey Wurdemann's first book of verse was published before she was 16, sponsored by the California poet, George Sterling. Born in Seattle, she graduated from the University of Washington in 1931, married Poet Joseph Auslander (The Winged Horse) in 1933, now lives in Manhattan. Tall, slender, black-haired, she is extremely shy, likes to cook and run her home, does not believe that poets must necessarily be temperamental or that they require a room of their own before their inspirations can flower...