Books: Shout

EVERY SOUL Is A CIRCUS—Vachel Lind-say—Macmillan ($2.75). "Now in the fiftieth year of my age comes my revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear—one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and...