“The Country Walk”
A young Englishman by the name of Edward Storer—I am assuming that he is young and that he is English—has protested effectively against the condition which decrees that a piece of writing, a painting, a sculpture has to be judged as a commodity before it can be judged as a work of art by issuing little four-page leaflets containing portions of his work denied publication by the commercialism of the times. The first, which is called The Country Walk, has some quite uninspired though rather charming prose poems in it. The Lark, for instance:
Out of the young grass and silence you arise, frail bird, spinning upwards to the sky. Faster beat the wings, and shriller is the voice, and soon you are lost in the high blue, so that scarcely can I hear your voice or see the maddened flutterings of your wings.
Then suddenly all is silent, and softly you drop to earth again to rest your aching body against the good brown earth.
The June-July Issue
On account of being so late with our May number we have decided to combine the June and July and thus come out promptly again on the first of the month. Subscriptions will be extended accordingly.
Edgar Lee Masters
In the August issue there will be a new poem by Edgar Lee Masters, author of The Spoon River Anthology, and also a photogravure portrait of the poet which has just been taken by Eugene Hutchinson.
The Submarine
(Translated from the Italian of Luciano Folgore by Anne Simon)