Z a. - `  
·   A l?l  
j tg technique: v %
— Q ”Semewhere within my thoughts I've heard Q
E A poem need be no longer than a word." or _ é
i i I In each poem she shapes and lays bare one image, emotional or Q
. intellectual, and she does it with such breviti, sim licit , definite- {
_ J P Y ,
p ness and beauty that it appeals nit only to students and lovers of E
verse but also to those who do not know poetry and even to those who 5
t do not usually_like it. e ` ,_ g
l . ` . {
3 1 . She expresses the viewpoint of an introspective woman, yet §
" _ A among the greatest admirers of her work are some of the leading Q
° _ men critics of English and American poetry. E
g CRITICAL ESTIMATES Q
I Joseph Auslander in his introduction to Mrs. Eudy's book dated 2
  July 5,1955, says: "The poems in Quarried Crystals are out from living 2
  matrix. They are fine as frost, as frugal as winter moonlight, and Q
  strong as a leaf or a mountain." {
1
  Z Edwin Mims in his book, Adventurous America, written before
g Mrs. Eudy published her volume says: ”or to find in Louisville Mary (
l' 5 Cummings with her two hundred working womeh who are treated as I
1 A members of a family making artistic dresses from individual designs,
S and in her leisure moments writing poetry that is more like that of {
Emily Dickinson than any poetry that is now being written and that is .
,1 yet individual enough to stand on its own merits." !
A Zona Gale in 1950 wrote regarding Mrs. Eudy's early poems: "They g
E are the new things newly done in an immortal way." _ E
A Joseph; Campbell, critic and professor of English at Hunters I
by Cellege, New York City, is quoted in the Louisville Herald-Post,
; Navember 9, 1950: ”Thore are three requisites to the art of writing
, poetry; every poem needs to have, first, clarity; second, color; ·
g third, significance. The style of Mrs. Eudy includes the require- i
p ments; in addition her poems are extremely original and very E
" beautiful.“ ` g
1 Edwin Markham in the same paper for April l, 1952, is quoted as g
Sayi¤g:»,”Mory Cummings Eudy is_a.true poet. She has‘the true concept- g
{ ion of poetry.and‘alsoApossesses the power of expression.= I have no E
5 d¤ubt,her work.will“leeve its mark on this time." ——· ·: I ·& E
    The AGourier—Journa]_, September 8, 1955, quotes John EI‘SkiI‘1€ @5 l"  
; Saying; "She can write, by JoveI` Each poem has its individuality “ Q
1 and_style.“ George Madden Martin in the same issue of this paper Q
I says: "These 'Crystals’ of thought convey the feeling of being é
1 precipitates from emotional experience. Those who·know the author are i
&W·’1I`G that she in unusual d_e,g·ree' has touched the life 0f·‘hGI‘ dd}/,`  
2 th&t‘She writes out*of a‘deep“and wide experience in many countries of Q
? ‘ · ‘ 4 {
ig · ‘ z
Q; {