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By James Hearst. Price, $3. Pp 45, with no illustrations. Prairie Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1962.

William B. Bean, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(6):902.

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The readers of contemporary American poetry may find it either baffling beyond words or so fascinating that their critical ability falters. They may give up in despair and go back to reading the anthologies they studied in grammar school. Of course most people are impervious to poetry. Poetic fancy and taste in poetry often seem to express polarities. At a time when poets may be exploring all kinds of new ideas the reading public, if there is such a thing, may have a conservative bent. When they catch up with the avant-garde, the poetic patrols, wire cutters, and saboteurs have come back to the base camp to refresh themselves in more conservative ways. Thus the audience may go astray. Despite the fact that James Hearst is introduced as someone who was "born," reared and educated in the heart of the richest soil in America," which produces a cheerfully troglodyte picture, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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