1. Mr. Kreymborg is a rebel against all conventions of form and content
in poetry. Consequently, the one thing to be expected in his work is the
unexpected. How far his utterances are sincere and how far posed, each
reader must judge for himself.
2. The following quotation from _Poetry_ (9 ['16]: 51) may serve as a
starting-point in discussing Mr. Kreymborg's qualities: "An insinuating,
meddlesome, quizzical, inquiring spirit; sometimes a clown, oftener a
wit, now and then a lyric poet ... trips about cheerfully among life's
little incongruities; laughs at you and me and progress and prejudice and
dreams; says 'I told you so!' with an air, as if after a double
somersault in the circus ring; grows wistful, even tender, with emotions
always genuine ... always ... as becomes the harlequin-philosopher,
entertaining."
3. The new movements in art--Futurist, Cubist, Vorticist--should be
remembered in studying Mr. Kreymborg's verse.