Advice: A Book of Poems - Maxwell Bodenheim

TO
MINNA
WHOSE SMILE IS MY THRONE

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.

Advice to a Street-Pavement	[ 13]
Advice to a Butter-Cup	[ 14]
Advice to a River Steamboat	[ 15]
Foundry Workers	[ 16]
Advice to a Hornèd Toad	[ 18]
Advice to a Forest	[ 19]
Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I	[ 21]
Advice to a Bluebird	[ 23]
To a Friend	[ 24]
Advice to a Woman	[ 25]
Rattlesnake Mountain Fable II	[ 26]
Advice to a Butterfly	[ 28]
Advice to a Pool	[ 29]
When Fools Dispute	[ 30]
Advice to a Grass-Blade	[ 31]
East-Side: New York	[ 32]
To a Man	[ 33]
The Child Meditates	[ 34]
Pierrot Objects	[ 36]
Columbine Reflects	[ 37]
Rattle Snake Mountain Dialogue	[ 38]
Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet	[ 41]
Smiles	[ 43]
The Courtesan Chats	[ 45]
The Mountebank Criticizes	[ 47]
To Li T’ai Po	[ 49]
Insanity	[ 51]
Track-Workers	[ 53]
Figure	[ 55]
Negroes	[ 56]
Broadway	[ 58]
Fifth Avenue	[ 60]
Young Woman	[ 62]
Two Women on a Street	[ 64]
Advice to Maple Trees	[ 66]
Boarding House Episode	[ 67]
Vaudeville Moment	[ 70]
To Orrick Johns	[ 72]
Young Poet	[ 73]
Steel Mills: South Chicago	[ 74]
South State Street: Chicago	[ 81]

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