Volume 3, Number 6 · November 5, 1964

Private Poet

By W.H. Auden
Rhymes of a Pfc
by Lincoln Kirstein

New Directions, 180 pp., $3.50

How can it happen, I ask myself, that a book of such extraordinary merit as Rhymes of a Pfc should have been turned down by publisher after publisher, and is now available only because its author could afford to pay the expenses of publication?



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