Maxwell Bodenheim's "Old Age"

Here's the next poet plucked from the pages of a Louis Untermeyer's between-the-wars anthology Modern American Poetry as part of my series for this year's National Poetry Month. The poet today is Maxwell Bodenheim, once the self-styled "King of the Greenwich Village Bohemians." As I've found is common over the years with my Project, this is poem that deals in old age written by someone far from old – the author was 26 when it was published. I'll write more about Bodenheim, his poem, and my experience with it soon at the Parlando Project blog location linked below. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org