SOURCE: “A Porcupine's View,” in The New York Herald Tribune, Vol. 4, No. 43, July 15, 1928, p. 7.

Busey reviews Sunset Gun, discussing what she believes is Parker's appeal for readers.

Although Miss Parker gives us in these pages, among other charming fantasies, what she calls a “Pig's-Eye View of Literature,” [Sunset Gun] itself could never be described as a pig's-eye view of life. There is no luxurious wallowing here (except, perhaps, in misery), no sloppiness, no slothful obesity. The poems are lean and quick as a snake. One might say they represented a porcupine's-eye view of life if Miss Parker had not written that “Parable of a Certain Virgin,” beginning:

Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Refresh your recollection, And sit a moment, to define His means of self-protection. 

She goes on to describe those means in swift rhythm and comic rhyme until:

Or should pursuers press him hot, One scarcely needs...