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    Advice: A Book of Poems
    Advice: A Book of Poems
    Advice: A Book of Poems
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    Advice: A Book of Poems

    By Maxwell Bodenheim

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    "Advice: A Book of Poems" is a collection of poems by an American poet and novelist Maxwell Bodenheim published in 1920. These works were especially popular during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. In his poems, he incorporated many techniques of the imagists, a poetic movement in early-20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN4057664097255
    Advice: A Book of Poems

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      Advice - Maxwell Bodenheim

      Maxwell Bodenheim

      Advice: A Book of Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664097255

      Table of Contents

      ADVICE TO A STREET-PAVEMENT

      ADVICE TO A BUTTER-CUP

      ADVICE TO A RIVER STEAM-BOAT

      FOUNDRY WORKERS

      ADVICE TO A HORNÈD TOAD

      ADVICE TO A FOREST

      RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN FABLE I

      ADVICE TO A BLUE-BIRD

      TO A FRIEND

      ADVICE TO A WOMAN

      RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN FABLE II

      ADVICE TO A BUTTERFLY

      ADVICE TO A POOL

      WHEN FOOLS DISPUTE

      ADVICE TO A GRASS-BLADE

      EAST-SIDE: NEW YORK

      TO A MAN

      THE CHILD MEDITATES

      PIERROT OBJECTS

      COLUMBINE REFLECTS

      RATTLE-SNAKE MOUNTAIN DIALOGUE

      DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PAST AND PRESENT POET

      SMILES

      THE COURTESAN CHATS

      THE MOUNTEBANK CRITICIZES

      TO LI T’AI PO

      INSANITY

      TRACK-WORKERS

      FIGURE

      NEGROES

      BROADWAY

      FIFTH AVENUE (New York)

      YOUNG WOMAN

      TWO WOMEN ON A STREET

      ADVICE TO MAPLE-TREES

      BOARDING-HOUSE EPISODE

      VAUDEVILLE MOMENT

      TO ORRICK JOHNS

      YOUNG POET

      STEEL-MILLS: SOUTH CHICAGO

      SOUTH STATE STREET: CHICAGO

      ADVICE TO A STREET-PAVEMENT

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      Lacerated grey has bitten

      Into your shapeless humility.

      Little episodes of roving

      Strew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.

      Life has given you heavy stains

      Like an ointment growing stale.

      Endless feet tap over you

      With a maniac insistence.

      O unresisting street-pavement,

      Keep your passive insolence

      At the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.

      Only one who lies upon his back

      Can disregard the stars.

      ADVICE TO A BUTTER-CUP

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      Undistinguished butter-cup

      Lost among myriads of others,

      To the red ant eyeing you

      You are giant stillness.

      He pauses on the boulder of a clod,

      Baffled by your nearness to the sky.

      But to the black loam at your feet

      You are the atom of a pent-up dream.

      Undistinguished butter-cup,

      Take your little breath of contemplation,

      Undisturbed by haughty tricks of space.

      ADVICE TO A RIVER STEAM-BOAT

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      The brass band plays upon your decks,

      Like a sturdy harlot aping

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