Letters From Bohemia

September, 1964

Letters from BohemiaMaxwell Bodenheim was more disliked, derided, denounced, beaten up and kicked down more flights of stairs than any poet of whom I have ever heard or read. He was also more ignored than any literary talent of his time.His seven volumes of poetry fetched him hardly a thimbleful of notice. Not acclaim, but ordinary notice such as is given the most inconsequential bores who darken the lives of literary critics.Yes, my friend Bogie whose work I admired more than the poetry of most...