Alfred Kreymborg was, as a poet, editor, dramatist, and critic, one of the moving forces on the American literary scene during the formative years of modernism in the 1910s and 1920s. Though most critics would agree with Allen Tate that Kreymborg's poetry is "not impressive", his efforts in behalf of a new American literature earn him a place in the history of modernist poetry, a fact that led Tate to include Kreymborg in his checklist of Sixty American Poets (1945). Robert Frost and Ezra Pound were both quick to recognize his importance. When in 1919 Kreymborg interrupted Frost in a game of tennis one pleasant afternoon in Amherst, Frost exclaimed, "Holy Smoke," and not only forgot about the tennis game but kept Kreymborg in conversation about what was happening on the literary scene in New York City for the next eight to nine hours--and awakened him early the next morning...