American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany

this time seniority has been the sole arbiter of precedence. Furthermore—and this can not be too often repeated—there has been no editor. To be painstakingly precise, each contributor has been his own editor. As such, he has chosen his own selections and determined the order in which they are to be printed, but he has had no authority over either the choice or grouping of his fellow exhibitors' contributions. To one of the members has been delegated the merely mechanical labors of assembling, proof-reading, and seeing the volume through the press. The absence of E. A. Robinson from this year's Miscellany is a source of regret not only to all the contributors but to the poet himself. Mr. Robinson has written nothing since his Collected Poems with the exception of a long poem—a volume in itself—but he hopes to appear in any subsequent collection. It should be added that this is not a haphazard anthology of picked-over poetry. The poems that follow are new. They are new not only in the sense that (with two exceptions) they cannot be found in book form, but most of them have never previously been published. Certain of the selections have appeared in recent magazines and these are reprinted by permission of The Century , The Yale Review , Poetry: A Magazine of Verse , The New Republic , Harper's , Scribner's , The Bookman , The Freeman , Broom , The Dial , The Atlantic Monthly , Farm and Fireside , The Measure , and The Literary Review . Vachel Lindsay's "I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry" is a revised version of the poem of that name which was printed in The Enchanted Years . CONTENTS A Foreword iii AMY LOWELL Lilacs 3 Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme 8 The Swans 13 Prime 16 Vespers 17 In Excelsis 18 La Ronde du Diable 20 ROBERT FROST Fire and Ice 25 The Grindstone 26 The Witch of Coös 29 A Brook in the City 37 Design 38 CARL SANDBURG And So To-day 41 California City Landscape 49 Upstream 51 Windflower Leaf 52 VACHEL LINDSAY In Praise of Johnny Appleseed 55 I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry 66 JAMES OPPENHEIM Hebrews 75 ALFRED KREYMBORG Adagio: A Duet 79 Die Küche 80 Rain 81 Peasant 83 Bubbles 85 Dirge 87 Colophon 88 SARA TEASDALE Wisdom 91 Places 92 Twilight (Tucson) Full…