Against This Age

by Maxwell Bodenheim

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75 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1923

About the author

Maxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Against This Age is a collection of prose by Maxwell Bodenheim and was published in 1913. Some of it is brilliant in its Upton Sinclair-like view of a cold, hard country turning increasingly industrial. There also a few poems about a man from Mars named Torban which are downright peculiar. My favorite piece is ironically a short story at the end called Surprise, which is about a man reuniting with the ghost of his dead girlfriend.

Some sample lines from Against This Age:
Religions are blindly tortured eyes, Paralyzing the speed of imagination, with static postures of hope.
You are the stench of every street, Thick with the vagaries of defeat; The wench who plies her crime, Within the alleyways of time.
Men who are inarticulate, Desire to parody their fate, With gibberish of clinking coins.
Living people are apt to smile when they have hidden too little, and weep when there is nothing left to hide.

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