Maxwell Bodenheim — a remark

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“The greater part of present-day rhymed verse is devoid of escaping freshness and vitality.”

Arguing that conventional form offers no guarantee of living poetry · Correspondence, A Reply to A. C. H., Poetry, 1919

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Maxwell Bodenheim

26 May 1892–6 February 1954

Maxwell Bodenheim's life reads like one of his own feverish poems—raw, defiant, laced with startling imagery, and shadowed by a restless hunger for freedom that both illuminated and destroyed him. Born into the humid anonymity of a small Southern town, he rose to become the self-crowned King of Greenwich Village…

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