Alfred Kreymborg, poet, dramatist, and former editor of such influential small magazines as Glebe (1913-1914) and Others (1915-1919), arrived in Paris with his wife Dorothy and Harold Loeb in June 1921. They were en route to Rome to compile the first issue of an international arts magazine, Broom (1921-1924), which they intended to make a truly catholic literary review by publishing the best of American and European writing and art. Kreymborg's first magazine, Glebe, had been active in introducing to Americans the Imagist poetry of Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, and William Carlos Williams. Others , his second effort, had published poems by Williams, Aldington, Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, John Gould Fletcher, Mina Loy, and Marianne Moore. He was also a member of the Provincetown Players, a group which at that time included Eugene O'Neill, Djuna Barnes, George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, and Floyd Dell. During...