



Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
book was produced from images made available by the
HathiTrust Digital Library.)









AGAINST THIS AGE




  AGAINST THIS AGE

  MAXWELL BODENHEIM

  [Illustration]

  BONI AND LIVERIGHT
  PUBLISHERS : : NEW YORK




  COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
  BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC.


  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




  To
  FEDYA AND MINNA
  FOUR EYES WITHIN A BLIND WORLD




Some of the poems in this book have appeared in _The Century_, _The
Bookman_, _The Nation_, _The Dial_, _The Menorah Journal_, _Broom_,
_The Double Dealer_, _Shadowland_, and _Harper’s Magazine_.




CONTENTS


  BABY                                  11

  NIGHTMARE AND SOMETHING DELICATE      13

  REGARDING AN AMERICAN VILLAGE         22

  THREE PORTRAITS                       25

  DEFINITIONS                           28

  TO A CORPULENT SINGER                 29

  TOPSY-TURVY               