THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
CURRENT NOTES By BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE POEMS OF JUSTICE, complide by Thomas Curtis Clark, published by Willett. Clark <fc Colby, is a collection of 350 selections from the writings of 200 poets...
...She says: • * • Naturally poets have a highly developed sensitiveness toward human suffering...
...Here are some of the finest poems of Emerson...
...It is their exquisite province to do this beautifully, and in music...
...but it is also their power to write of "man as god" in a pit...
...In the myriad incidentals of religion, he was a man of profound faith, if faith be the flower of courage rather than of credulity, for he belonged to that little band of elect spirits who are willing to venture outside the circle of the white light of the known that, falls about their feet...
...fl| Congrn-tulations and best wt-he;t to success...
...equator, came In at his window and fell full upon his face, of a lamp-lit clarity and pcac- and power...
...His mind knew nothing of the cautions and conservatisms that so often come with ago...
...They have a seer's sense of the stupidity and cruelty of man's dealing with man...
...He loved the sun...
...He looked so beautiful and noble and somehow—clear...
...He was wonderful — I knew that you felt that...
...As the ancient saints Indulged in the "practice ot the presence of God...
...In part this tribute reads: • * * He was one of the few authentically great men I have known and from whose nutritive minds I have drawn sustenance and .strength • • » There was nothing about him save his body that was 87 years old...
...Undouhtcd-ly man will outgrow his suffering," a wise man* said, and he paid also: "Everything is a thought first...
...Finally, their genius being creative, poets apply creative • genius to a dream of a world where human beings act their human parts...
...EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD READ [ Philadelphia, Pa., Jan...
...A nonconformist...
...The world of which they tell Is a world of reality, waiting to be realized...
...That was like him...
...MISS GALE'S ' LETTER THIS prophecy is mad...
...Markham...
...book goes to you, with this...
...In an age obsessed with the importance of things, he had an absorbing passion for ideas...
...March of Revolt...
...That, benediction seemed with design...
...If it can be so said, he was homesick for the new...
...as a being doomed by hig fellows to the use of a fraction of his intelligence, stunted, limited, cribbrd, dying of the malady of life when he had groped for his gateway...
...FRANK ATRIBUTE to Charles F\ Hair, father of Zona Gale, by Dr Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin, is a classic to be read again and again with renewed inspiration...
...and the sun, almost on th...
...Tolstoy, Whitman...
...But the closing eentence he had said often and often, with a kind of soft triumph...
...And then the look of utter surprise, in those last seconds—such amazement —and silence...
...All in all, he was a great man...
...Clark <fc Colby, is a collection of 350 selections from the writings of 200 poets on the theme of social justice and human brotherhood...
...Bryant...
...The Foreword by Zona Gale is a rarely beautiful and sympathetic interpretation of the spirit of the compilation...
...Every Amprican should read the Pt> grewive,—J...
...But he was no mere dilettante, playing with ideas for the play's sake...
...future, and images for the use of talent...
...He never left the prow of the boat where he loved to feel the spray of the future against his face...
...Sandburg, Lindsay and other notable poets classified as Panorama of the Poor...
...From Isaiah to Greenwich Village is a long lane, but that lane stretches, filled with the singers of one theme...
...At dawn he said the words which I quote here...
...No one could go like that who was not so— and it was just so that mother went...
...tead of impersonating ape and tiger, lion, or even lamb...
...O. SchweUer...
...Brothers All...
...In this letter she says: Just a few days before, as I sat with him downstairs (he was dressed, and dressed himself every day to the last I had sent off a little foreword to a collection of Poems of Justice—and I put in it the closing words that night when we sat, he and I, all nlgnt by the fire, two nights before...
...It cams at, nearly Ave in the afternoon —so quietly, so simply, and in utter silence...
...Whatever is to run through the age* continuing to change human nature, and claiming to adjust relationships according to economic formulae, it is sure that these singers have leaped beyond law and formulae, and they knnw...
...A long and lovely day of life...
...fvnn more perfect and moving by Zona letter to me which accompanied Poems of Justice, written soon after the death of her noble father...
...He never fell from the high enthusiasm of the mind into I he dusly ruts of triviality...
...He was a master of that lost art of meditation in the practice of which, as one of the great meditative spirits of another century said, the soul spreads itself, unfolds, and s:prinRs afresh, and, like (he trod-drn grass of the roadside, repairs its injuries, becomes new, spontaneous, true, and original...
...All the poets of importance of all time have written poetry of social Justice...
...The dedication is to the memory of Walter Rauschcnbusch...
...he indulged in the "practice of the presence of Truth...
...To write of field, flower, leathered thing, mosaic and fabric, lvcry, ape and peacock is their heritage...
...and had said more than once that it was worthy to be worshipped...
...Of social Justice, like other magics, "poets have always known...
...j* TRIBUTE BY PRES...
...He knew the creative power of reverie which "with gentle fertilizing power awakens within us a thousand sleeping germs, and as though in play, gathers round us materials for the...
...but all is charged with an energy like the energy of atoms...
...saint-seer, social prophet...
...He la wonderful...
...He was one of the few cicicriy men I have known who seemed never to grow homesick for the old...
...This collection of Poems of Justice contains the word of innumerable voices from old days to the present...
...C. F. Gale...
...And his spirit kept, its delicacy undullcd and its strength vibrant to the end...
...His dominant concern was the humanizutlon of society, and his flaming spirit always beat against the walls of ills frail body whenever he saw poverty or war or injustice lift their sinister heads to strike at human values...
...More than this, they have a profound emotional sense not merely of indignation and compassion, but of fellowship with the trampled and wasted ones...
...The handling is didactic or lyric, reasoned or passionate...
...Dreams and Goals...
...Then the chimes of hLs Westminster clock that he loved, struck five...
...He loved the summer and dreaded the winter— and the service for him was on the day before the autumn solstice...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
