Soldier and the Rose by Marcel Haedrich (Putnam, 1962). One of the officers is homosexual and he plays a substantial role in the plot. More substantial for example than the roles in novels by James Jones or Norman Mailer.

The life of the hero of If Thine Eye Offend Thee (Simon and Schuster, 1961) is marked by his discovery of the overt homosexuality of a male relative. Heinrich Schirmbeck, considered an important novelist in Germany, is well worth plowing through for the scant 3 or 4% homosexual. content. The one scene the boy watches is rather funny in a macabre way.

POET'S CORNER: Because of the review of the Vazakas poetry in the July REVIEW, a staff member of the magazine kindly led me to the works of George Granville Barker and Wilfred Owen.

In turn, I feel all readers will want to look up their works at the library, and possibly ultimately obtain them second hand, for both authors contributed handsomely to the male homosexual poetry shelf.

For Barker the most complete and easiest to obtain work is Collected Poems, 1930-1955 (Criterion, 1957, 1958). His range is from subtle to explicit and there isn't room to list all of the many pertinent poems. Special mention belongs to the various series' called "Sacred Elegies"; "Zennor Idyls"; and "Pacific Sonnets." Unusually important single poems include "In Memory of a Friend," "The Leaping Laugher's,""Kew Gardens," "Epithalamium for Two Friends" and "A Song of the Sea." These are just a few of the items in this excellent and quite long collection.

Wilfred Owen, of course, is the sadly lamented World War I casualty of the poetic world. His brief life produced just a slim group of poems. There are older, slighter English editions of his work which may be available in some libraries, but the easiest probably to obtain is the volume Poems (New Classics Series, 1949).

Considering that half of this volume (I do not know which poems) was first published in 1920, and attracted enough critical attention to cause a 1921 reprint, it is odd that nothing has been said of his very obvious homosexual preoccupations.

Very little is said in the biographical sources available about Wilfred Owen that would indicate what must have been a. major drive in his own life, if his poetry can be said to reflect the man.

He was born in 1893 and killed in 1917 at age 25. He is coupled with Siegfred Sassoon as a "war poet," but his real hall of fame is, or should be, on the homophile book shelf. Virtually all of his poems are concerned with either war, or love of men, and generally both.

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LISTENERS SAY THANKS

Following are several excerpts from the 23 letters from listeners who beard Hal Call's series of five sex talks on "The Hypocrisy of Sexual Morality" at the annual summer training school of the Prosperos in Santa Barbara, California, in July (see August REVIEW for text of first talk). Thus the following excerpts might better be called, "Listeners Write":

... Enjoyed seeing you again and enjoyed your talks...-Mr. and Mrs. D.P. and Family, Califomia.

You did a bang-up job with your lecture series... Looking for a much closer relationship (with your organization) outside the homophile movement.-Miss D.M., Califomia.

...Thanks again and again for your great help provided through your series. -R.B., California.

It was indeed a pleasure meeting you in person and listening to your talks. Yes, you are a rebel "with a cause," courageous and daring to voice your convictions. More power to you and your associates. I am sending you the book I promised...-(Mrs.) E.R., Texas. This is a belated expression of appre ciation for your presence at Santa Bar bara and for your wonderful lectures. I enjoyed them so very much... Dr. H.S., Texas.

REVIEW EDITOR: According to my schedule, it is time to pay my dues as a subscribing member at $15.00.

I have looked through several issues of the magazine and find in none of them a list of the several categories of mem.

bership-let alone the corresponding fees. I think you make a big mistake in omitting this in even one issue.

One makes the same mistake, though I am an associate member, for which the fee is $50.00.

Not only do I think you should list the categories and fees in each issueI think you should invent some categor ies at a fee higher than $15.00. Say a cantankerous membership, costing

$50.00.

I hope that the apparently recurring friction between Matta chine and One will be stopped. Was it you or One who announced that it would no longer adver tise for the other? If it was you, then come off it! If it was One, then turn the other cheek and advertise them. Each of you serves a fine purpose and I have every intention of supporting you both equally.

Enclosed is my money order in the amount of $50.00, for which I expect a cantankerous membership for the year. -Mr. H.H., Califomia.

EDITORS' NOTE: It wasn't us.

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