Ken Wainio Papers, 1970-1999

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Ken Wainio Papers, 1970-1999

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/wainioken/

Ken Wainio (1952-2006) was an American surrealist author and poet based in San Francisco, California. Collection includes manuscripts and drafts of many of Wainio's poems and writings, including his novel, . Also includes his journals and diaries, published poetry and printed materials, some correspondence, snapshots, and other biographical information. Starfuck

9.4 Linear Feet; 7050 Items

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Wainio, Ken.

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Ken Wainio was born in Ukiah, California, about two hours north of San Francisco, in 1952. He began to write at age fifteen--having been influenced by the writings of the French poets Lautreamont, Rimbaud, and Nerval. He moved to San Francisco at the beginning of the 1970s to study at San Francisco State University with the Greek surrealist poet Nanos Valaoritis, and met the American surrealist poets Philip Lamantia and Stephen Schwartz. A couple of years later, in an informal "poet...