Reviews

"one of the great poets of our time" . . . "poet of the century."--Alfred Dorn "[A Hornbook for Witches is] a gem in all senses of the word. Some of the poems are as magical as Walter de la Mare . . ."--Clark Ashton Smith "Miss Drake's lines sing, and her subjects are never very far from that enchantment which many feel to lie at the heart of real poetry. . . . [T]here is more poetry in these pages than is to be found in a dozen of the coterie poets of our day. . . . I recommend This Tilting Dust for its delightful images, for its often memorable flights of fancy, and for a quality which, for want of a better term, can best be called luminosity."--August Derleth "The work of Leah Bodine Drake is particularly notable for its warm and enticing imagery. . . . she is not merely a sensualist. Her enormous range of subject-matter includes myth, legend, folk and fairy tales, human interest features and the history of every period. [. . . H]er finest power is attained in her verses of closer metrics and greater technical discipline."-- George Abbe "[A Hornbook for Witches] set a standard of excellence never equaled . . . before or since."--Stanley McNail