Advice: A Book of Poems

Bodenheim, Maxwell · 1954

Some of the poems which compose this book have appeared in the _Yale Review_, the _Smart Set_, the _New Republic_, _Reedy’s Mirror_, the _Dial_, the _Touchstone_, the _Little Review_, _Poetry: A Magazine of Verse_, the _Century_, and the _New York Tribune_. They are good, in spite of their numerous appearances. Lacerated grey has bitten Into your shapeless humility. Little episodes of roving Strew their hieroglyphics on your muteness. Life has given you heavy stains Like an ointment growing stale. Endless feet tap over you With a maniac insistence.…

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