Jack Rose

Introducing Irony (Version 2)

by Maxwell BODENHEIM (1892 - 1954)

Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the The Chicago Literary Times. But his life took a downward spiral and he became a panhandler and led a desultory life, finally ending in his murder along with his third wife in a Bronx apartment. The title of this book characterizes the tone of these 22 poems and 10 small stories, full of dark cynicism and twisted irony, with titles such as “Seaweed From Mars” and “ Insanity.” - Summary by Larry Wilson

Listen next episodes of Introducing Irony (Version 2):
An Acrobat, a Violinist, and a Chambermaid Celebrate , Art , Candid Narrative , Condensed Novel , Emotional Monologue , Ethics , Finalities , Garbage Heap , History , Imaginary People , Impulsive Dialogue , Insanity , Love , Manners , Meditations in a Cemetery , Music , Novel Conversation , Poetry , Pronounced Fantasy , Psychic Phenomena , Religion , Scientific Philosophy , Seaweed From Mars , Simple Account of a Poet’s Life , Summer Evening: New York Subway Station , The Scrub-Woman , Turmoil in a Morgue , Two Sonnets to My Wife , Uneasy Reflections , Unliterary and Shameless , When Spirits Speak of Life