The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-14

Ilm0-pMOSC any aLJeIHUou Ut eve"
ming.
Place - The public library, hotel
lobby, or newsstand, where you are
looking for something to read-some-
thing diverting- different.
Enter: "Poetry, grey-backed
booklet lettered quietly in pastel pur-
pie, green or blue.
Business of giving the newcomer the
"once over'', remarking that it is
probably "deep, high-browish, and I'M
interesting, and passing it up for an
atrocity with screaming" cover of
scarlet and gold and sable promise
of stories that are "woozy", erotic-
with the accent on the "rot or,
peradventure, salacious.
Exit: You and your magazine
Curtain.
Behind the Scenery.
In reality the little grey book on the
shelf was none of those things you call
ed tat least EXCEPTIONALLY so.
Tt was "deep" but never obscure;
profound but not diletante much less
"high- browish Funinteresting only
to those who do not appreciate frag-
ments of life seen by folks who under
stand and reproduced for you with all
the clearness of etchings, boldly sketch
ed but finely drawn with delicate shad-
ings and elusive tone effects.
All Of that and more lay behind that
modest cover design in pastel green
and gray
There we're faery Fittings, witching
~ evanescent, and beside them cameo
mic flashes of everyday men and wo-
men portrayed with artistry and with
out camouflage.
There was music, too-a cadence"
SO subtle and varied that it would not
cloy with mere prettiness or bore with
jazz-jigginess so monotonous as to
stiffle spirituality and so blatant as to
drown symphonic ideas in the blare of
a ragtime measure.
More Than Magazine Movement.
."Poetry" is more than a magazine.
It's movement 1t represents a nat
uralization-or better-a democratiza-
tion Of modern verse and modern versi-
fiers.
1t stands for freedom--freedom Of
thought and freedom of expression.
In form its poems are plea for in
dividuality. They trip along in lines
of changing ryhthm and varying
length. Their ryhme is like love-1et-
ter: you never can tell when it will
come or what it will be when it gets
there.
The very uncertainty of it all serves
to pique the interest of the reader as
we'll as to prevent the sing-songy eff
fects of less artistic poems.
In thought the offerings of "Poe-
try" are essentially modern and reals
tic.
They present the world not as it
should be but as it is and yet in a garb
80 fanciful that its most common
place aspects seem ideal.
IN brief" Poetryn is new and
vitalizing factor in modern letters 1t
has introduced into literature the free
dom and unconventiality of impression
ism which are fundamental to- the high
est forms of art. It has given to the
world a truly American poetry in every
way expressive of the freshness and
progress of occidental life.
Little Old New York Says:
Not often will Broadway admit that
any good can come out of Chicago but
in the cases of CALI Curci and "Poe-
try" little old New York has forgotten
her pride and provincialism and brought
a fulsome tribute of praise.
The New York Tribune of a recent
issue says:
"The best magazine of poetry in the
English language is not published in
London, where dwells Mr.. Masefield, or
in Dublin, where every Sim Feiner is
poet, nor yet in New York, but in