High Falcon & Other Poems
High Falcon
&
Other Poems
High Falcon
& Other Poems
by Léonie Adams
The John Day Company
New York
Copyright, 1929, by Léonie Adams
Printed in the U. S. A.
For the John Day Company, Inc.
By the Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., Rahway, N. J.
To
Louise Bogan
and
Raymond Holden
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Léonie Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, December 9, 1899. She was graduated from Barnard College in 1922, and since then has been employed as a teacher of English, a research secretary, and an editorial assistant, In 1928 Miss Adams was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing abroad which was renewed in 1929, and is now living in Paris. Her first published poem appeared in a periodical in 1921. In 1924 she became one of the editors of the Poetry Magazine, The Measure. A volume of lyrics, Those Not Elect, was published in 1925. In 1927 certain of the poems in this volume were included in American Poetry, a miscellany. Others appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, Palms, and The Saturday Review of Literature, by whose kind permission they are here reprinted.
High Falcon
&
Other Poems
THE CONTENTS
THE
JOHN DAY
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