Spectra - A Book of Poetic Experiments

Arthur Davison Ficke (1883–1945) was an American playwright, poet, and Japanese art expert. One of America''s most famous sonnet writers, he was widely regarded as a “poet''s poet” and influenced many other poets of his time. First published in 1916, he co-wrote “Spectra” under the pseudonym Anne Knish. Originally written as a farce of a type of then-famous experimental verse, the assortment of od...