WRAITHS AND REALITIES
By CALE YOUNG RICE
"In the writing of lyrics Mr. Rice is unequalled by any modern poet.... One must go outside of contemporary life to find anything of similar excellence."—Gordon Ray Young (The Los Angeles Times).
"A new book by Mr. Rice is always an event in American letters...."—The New York Tribune.
"Here, for all to read, is poetic genius spurred and wrought upon ... by a rare and wondrous poetic inspiration.... It is like great chimes sounding—jangled at times or overborne—but always great."—The Philadelphia North American.
"Mr. Rice in his narratives can tell such tales as the old ballad-makers would have gloated over, and can make them contemporary and convincing. He can create life tragedies or comedies in a few lines and leave the reader with a sense of having been given a full meal of circumstance.... He is original without striving to be so, and one can never be embarrassed by the affirmation that he has come to hold a high place among poets of America."—The Chicago Tribune.
"Cale Young Rice has been credited with some of the finest poetry, and regarded as a distinguished master of lyric utterance, and this latest volume is warrant for such approval."—The Brooklyn Eagle.
"We find in Mr. Rice the large and elemental vision a poet must have to serve his people when overwhelmed by elemental sorrows and passions. His poetry is a spiritual force interpreting life in the various phases of intellect and emotion, with a beauty of finish and sense of form that are unerring."—The Louisville Post.
"All that has been said of Cale Young Rice, and that is much indeed, is justified in this latest volume."—The San Francisco Chronicle.
"Cale Young Rice is a real poet of genuine and sincere inspiration, never reminiscent or imitative or obvious, but singing from a full heart his keen, meditative songs."—The New York Times.
12mo. 187 pages. Price $1.50