Recent Books

MAINE BALLADS--Robert P. Tristram Coffin--Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural rag bag.

A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY--Edited by Selden Rodman--Random House ($3). A generous assortment of modern verse, with biographical notes on all the writers represented, and an enthusiastic if somewhat cockerel-sure introduction to contemporary poetics--all aimed to give readers a leg-up on Pegasus. Most readers will like Editor Rodman and his broad-backed horse.

POEMS NEW AND SELECTED--Melville Cane--Harcourt, Brace ($2). One hundred and fourteen dissolutely inconsequential lyrics by an American connoisseur of Imagism.

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