Pearl Andelson - Songs of Death & Other Verse

Peal Andelson - Songs of Death & Other Verse

Forgotten Poets #2 / forgottenpoets.substack.com

’Songs of Death & Other Verse’ [90 pages] beings together, for the first time, Chicago poet Pearl Andelson’s free and formal poetry from the 1920s, including a generous selection of verse from her first collection, Fringe (1923), and various uncollected poems from ’little magazines’ (1921-28); with illustrations by Marguerite Zorach and Mildred Heinau. Andelson wrote for Harriet Monroe’s Poetry, and was a member of the Chicago Poetry club, alongside Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Janet Lewis, and John Tiggo. Winters would say of her work; ＂Andelson has developed and mastered a compact and beautiful technique that can apparently be made as simple or intricate as she desires... [with] precise, flawless juxtaposition, and an exquisite mastery of end and internal rhyme.＂

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-: Mishap: -

The rain arranged

Crystal berries for me

To wear

In my hair.

By inadvertence one fell

Into the

Infinity

Of a bluebell.

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The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented ’free’ and ’new verse’ from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.