Show Talbott Strikes New Note With His Lis Ballyhoo for a Mendicant By ART DECK Carlton Talbott has struck a new note in poetry with his Ballyhoo for a There is some some- tiling thing fresh flesh sparkling alive and distinctly dis- dis individual about tills this little volume of poems which one does not ordinarily find In verse He covers covers' a field which has been scorned by other her poets who perhaps felt that they must not quite so desultory to write about But Talbott has Ilas not made It appear such He has haa gone Into tile the r raptures of modernism with his ballyhoo and has bas done it In a manner which Is thoroughly daring and which Is so 50 far from tile the usual thing that one wonders just how it was I An excerpt fronD from his title poem will perhaps show more profoundly than ever lila his apparent case and flamboyant air If youve you've-a penny Or two or three You'll he be enticed lIell show you a bottle or of virgins virgin's milk A hair from tile the beard Of DC Jesus Christ t. t Gods God's wisdom tooth as weil wei And a shriveled imp lie He luckily speared midmost In the center of hellAnd hell hell hell- And then his his his' Moll of r A Broadside Here Is a slit eyed ered lady That was a topers toper's wife She could not change tile the toper And So she changed her life She got the mighty bailiff A man so stout and grim That all who meet his anger Take off their hats to hIm But not tile the slit alit eyed la lady For when they disagree e eShe I She brings to light her buttocks And In tills this room we see lf If you have be been n startled By such a thing you'll f find nd not because th Custom Grows s stale stalo with wom But rather that tile the ladies Are shrewder in our day And Inwardly perform it- it Which is tile the safer bay va Both or of these are typIcal or of the whole group or of poems which this carefree poet has concocted The author has had a background tl at be impossible impossible im- im possible for him to write anything but Interesting poems As Asa a child chUd he spent his youth In tile the back alles alle's alleys al- al leys les of Baltimore where he bers his association with hoboes and learning to drink beer out or of buckets more vivIdly than the short time he spent at school lIe associated with the lowest kind but on tile the side he delved Into tile the realms of Shakespeare and Coleridge lie He lists among Ills his enthusiasms old beer old books old houses young oung rain and young oung girls lie He detests anything modern in ill tile the way of machinery and has no use for law lawor or anything pertaining to it And ono one could not hope to find anything that wasn't unique flow from flom the pen of a poet whose great great- reat- reat est eat ambition Is to go mad Horace Liveright NewYork |