The dichotomy between poetry as literature and performance has resulted in modernist poetic drama being slighted in modernist studies, contend Bay-Cheng (theatre, U. of Buffalo/State University
of New York) and Cole (Just Buffalo Literary Center) in their critical introduction. Seeking to situate the genre in its rightful role, this anthology reprints eight plays by poets: Wallace
Stevens' Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise (1916), Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo: A Play in One Act (1919), H.D. (Hilda Doolittle's) Hippolytus Temporizes 1927), E.E. Cummings' Him
(1927), Marita Bonner's The Purple Flower (1928), William Carlos Williams' Many Loves: Trial Horse No. 1 (1942), Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All (1945-1946), and Ezra Pound's Sophokles:
Women of Trachis (1954). Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
