Word: wurdemann
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...SEVEN SINS-Audrey Wurdemann -Harper...
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...
...minds of those who have followed American poetry for years and have its best interests at heart. His chief claim to fame lies in his own work-and I say this as one who has just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since...