Mr. Albion's Joy'Ems

63 pp. "In an age that honors abstraction and gloom it is good to discover JOY'EMS, a book that communicated gladness, and to find here only clean words - whatever their number of syllables. Happily, there is a retreat from the tortured and unintelligible (best witnessed in the appointment of Sir John Betjeman as England's seventeenth Poet Laureate) and renewed respect for people who use poetic form to reach out to others. In another time Joseph Albion Joyce, Jr., might have been a folksinger traveling the byways of America. May his song, here presented, accomplish the mission inherent in its title."