SOURCE: "Against Barracks and Classroom," The Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXXI, No. 41, October 9, 1948, pp. 29-30.

In the following review of Terror and Decorum, Rodman praises Viereck's first collection of poetry for being "so rich in experimental vigor."

In ten years of reviewing verse. I have gone overboard, as they say, for only two first books—Shapiro's. "Person, Place and Thing" and Lowell's "Lord Weary's Castle"—as I intend to go for this one, (Terror and Decorum) and I can't think of a better way of beginning than by measuring it against the other two. The excitement of Shapiro's book was in its summing-up of the social revolt of a whole decade that had been (if we except Auden, in England) without a spokesman in poetry; with his personal blend of violence and elegant wit, Shapiro delivered the coup de grace to the Lost Generation (expatriate and metaphysical...