Kirkus' Review
This is a curious and original collection of poems, written by an American China. He has chosen Chinese forms and Chinese subjects, but has closed nearly each poem, no matter how lyrical, with an ending of two or three lines of bitter refer to the dastardly Japs. Thus the opening poem is an exquisite description of Chinese pottery makers, especially of a porcelain flute ""so thin, that the light shines it... and when you hold it in your hands in the evening, it is like playing tears ing in the wind"". The next, and last, lines of this poem are ""forget the tears, I heard the siren"". The impact of brutality against sensitivity and beauty is thus powerfully expressed. This poetry has a real love of beauty, a real understanding the Chinese sense of art, and a real feeling for the tragedy of China. All China lovers will enjoy it. In fact it deserves wide notice for it has a certain loveli that is a rare quality these days.
Pub Date: Sept. 25th, 1947
| LoC Classification |
PS3525.A25944 .H9 |
| LoC Control Number |
47031147 |
| Nationality |
American |
| Dust Jacket |
dj |
| No. of Pages |
45 |
| Height x Width |
8.3
inch |
| First Edition |
Yes |
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A narrative series of poems which have a common picaresque interpretation of history. The setting is China recently invaded by Japan. The author was in the USN and at the landings in Normandy and inland.
McKINNEY-Robert Moody. A former U.S. Ambassador and Editor and Publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican for more than half a century, died of pneumonia Sunday night at New York Hospital. He was 90. He was a diplomat, corporate director, conservationist, veteran and poet. McKinney served by appointment to five presidents: As Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, as U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna, as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and held two appointments in the U.S. Treasury Department. McKinney bought the Santa Fe New Mexican in 1949.
