. Carolina magazine [serial] . ?4 30 lis-. Naive Sophistication Enough Rope. By Dorothy (Rothchild) Parker. Boni & Liveright, New pp. $ Dorothy Parkers rope is twisted from several strands. There is a heavystrand of traditional light verse, another wire that appears strangely like EdnaSt. Vincent Millays, a hair that resembles Elinor Wylies, but—undoubtedly thecore is that of Mrs. Parker herself. Its a shaggy rope, rough with strong humorand coarsened by disillusionment, and—it reeks with the tar of reality. In this delightful volume we see two poets; one is the old Dorothy Parke

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. Carolina magazine [serial] . ?4 30 lis-. Naive Sophistication Enough Rope. By Dorothy (Rothchild) Parker. Boni & Liveright, New pp. $ Dorothy Parkers rope is twisted from several strands. There is a heavystrand of traditional light verse, another wire that appears strangely like EdnaSt. Vincent Millays, a hair that resembles Elinor Wylies, but—undoubtedly thecore is that of Mrs. Parker herself. Its a shaggy rope, rough with strong humorand coarsened by disillusionment, and—it reeks with the tar of reality. In this delightful volume we see two poets; one is the old Dorothy Parker,humorous poet and disciple of F. P. A.; the other is a new, vivid poet with a bare,sharp, acrid style. At her best she is spontaneous in her point-blank franknessand originality. This is love poetry such as a clever, experienced flapper wouldwrite—bright, peppy, completely disillusioned. Her weakest poems are the transi-tion poems which straddle between her old loaded-cigar—trick-matchbox sur-prise poems, burlesque sentiment

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