EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS OF “IN VIVID GARDENS”
“A rich contralto voice singing out of the deepest experiences of life.”—Poetry.
“The emotions are human, lofty and honorable; their voicing is sincere, passionate, and at times exalted.”—Twentieth Century Magazine.
“Few of the modern poets can so easily convince the doubting ones of the necessity of their vocation as the author of this slender volume of verse.”—Chicago Daily News.
“Aside from their poetic beauty, the verses possess a dignity, wholesomeness and outspoken valiance that carry conviction. Sincerity is their dominant note; they are the utterance of one who has heard ‘the quiet but far-reaching voice of truth.’”—The Craftsman.
“The vigor of its thought raises it above questions of technique, and it is poetry unquestionably, inevitably, simply because it is the authentic voice of womanhood proclaiming itself in the unfaltering accents of real passion.”—Harold Monro in The Poetry Review (London, 1912).
“Sincere, unconventional, forthright verse.”—The Oakland Enquirer.
“A human document, even a social document.”—The New York Times.
“Distinctly worthy of note.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“Here is a new song under the sun, a woman’s love song which neither pretends to be a man’s love song, nor confines itself to feelings which most men are accustomed to think of women as having. It is solar, not lunar; it is clear with its own light and warm with its own fire.”—The Chicago Evening Post.