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“His perceptions are regularly remarkable, cogent and refreshingly unique, and his use of the language in addition to his mastery of English sentence structure
make the booklet worthy interpreting to illustrate of superlative variety if not anything else.” — R. Baird Shuman, South Atlantic Quarterly

This quantity makes on hand in ebook shape a set of seventeen essays through Edward Dahlberg, who has been referred to as one of many nice unrecognized writers of our time. a number of the choices have by no means been released prior to; others have seemed formerly merely in magazines of constrained circulate. there's a foreword through Sir Herbert Read.

The person essays are on a variety of matters - literary, historic, philosophical, own. The longest is a dialogue of Herman Melville’s paintings entitled “Moby-Dick - A Hamitic Dream.” The destiny of authors by the hands of reviewers is the topic of the essay referred to as “For Sale.” In “No Love and No Thanks” the writer attracts a characterization of our time. He provides a critique of the poet William Carlos Williams in “Word-Sick and Place-Crazy,” and a dialogue of F. Scott Fitzgerald in “Peopleless Fiction.” In “My buddies Stieglitz, Anderson, and Dreiser” he discusses not just Alfred Stieglitz, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser yet different personalities besides. He additionally writes of Sherwood Anderson in “Midwestern Fable.” In “Cutpurse Philosopher” the topic is William James. “Florentine Codex” is ready the conquistadores. different essays within the assortment are the next: “Randolph Bourne,” “Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies,” “Chivers and Poe,” “Domestic Manners of Americans,” “Robert McAlmon: A Memoir,” “The Expatriates: A Memoir,” and an essay on Allen Tate.

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Alms for Oblivion

“His perceptions are commonly very good, cogent and refreshingly unique, and his use of the language in addition to his mastery of English sentence structure
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Kenneth Fearing, a very neglected poet of little tombstone ironies on America, never troubled to thank Sol Funaroff and me for bringing out his verse. Funaroff, a radical poet, and one whose spirit was not staled by selfishness, spent days at the printers for Fearing's book, while I went to various editors and acquaintances to raise the money. I wrote a foreword £36 to it and got Archibald MacLeish, Joshua Kunitz, and Farrell to speak at an evening given at a lawyer's house on Twelfth Street. The book sold and was well received, and Fearing got a Guggenheim award.

He lived in one part and rented out the other half for forty dollars a month, on which he managed by eating the lean fare of a Greek Cynic or an acolyte of Plotinus. He spent most of this pittance on 47] gallons of bad wine and whiskey. My wife Rlene one day looked into his icebox and saw nothing there but lentils, which reminds one how Diogenes washed leeks in the stream for his supper. Dying of tuberculosis and alcohol, he had no companions except arthritic she-slovens, consumptive plumbers, and a female real-estate agent with a bone and joint disease who had come there for the mineral baths.

Buffon remarked that our organs suffer far more from weariness from the longings to which they are subject than from actual physical indulgence. Little wonder that one of the greatest complaints in America is fatigue. Robert McAlmon was a defiant rake-hell of literature; he went to Paris and later to Barcelona to inveigh against America without restraint. He seemed to lack the full liberty he prized so much unless he could employ the most loathsome words. The money he spent to help and to print the works of unknown authors dropped through his sieve-like pockets just as easily as the gargantuan obscenities fell out of his mouth.

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