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The Importance of Asian Poems
Elijah Hay published three or four books in the 20s but this her first book is called Woman of 30 from Knopp in 1919 and at the end of it is all the Elijah Hay poems. Jay Smith who did that spectra Hooke's book left her out completely. One hopes she tried to follow the initial impulse of that crazy half-baked canish preface like with had other lines like if the spectrist wished to describe a landscape he will put down those winged emotions, those fantastic analogies which the real scene awakens in his own mind. It becomes clear how many of Hay's poems address women including one poem with a hilarious title, Nightmare After Talking to
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