The rigorous climate of Nova Zembla I find most stimulating to
production, and therefore in this new edition I am able to include
several new poems. "The Ode to a Seamew," the "Fracas on an Ice Floe,"
and the sequence of triolimericks are all new. If I have been able to
convey anything of the bracing vigour of the Nova Zembla _locale_ the
praise is due to my friendly and suggestive critic, the editor of
_Gooseflesh_, the leading Nova Zemblan review.
Vachel Lindsay's new book, "The Tango," has not yet appeared, therefore
I may perhaps say here that he is hard at work on an "Ode to the Gulf
Stream," which has great promise.
The success of this little book has been such that I am encouraged to
hope that the publisher's exemption of royalties will soon be worked
off.