Kenneth Rexroth papers Bulk, 1969-1981 1940-1982

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet and publisher, most closely associated with the Beat movement. Born in New York, Ferlinghetti suffered several family-related tragedies in his youth, and was raised in unusual circumstances. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II, and continued his education at Columbia and The Sorbonne. He moved to San Francisco, where he co-founded City Lights book store and publishing house, which became integral wi...

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Hamill, Sam.

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Sam Hamill is the author of over 30 books, including original poetry, essays, and translations from Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, Latin, and Greek. Included among his works are Nootka Rose (1987), A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry (1990), Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing (1992), Destination Zero: Poems, 1970-1995 (1995), Gratitude (1998), and Dumb Luck (2002). Hamill received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Guggenheim Memorial fello...

Solt, John, 1949-....

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Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982

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Born Dec. 22, 1905 in South Bend, IN; campaigned for many radical groups, particularly the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), and espoused eroticism and general anarchy; influenced by poet William Carlos Williams and the Second Chicago Renaissance; founded San Francisco Poetry Center with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; although his Bohemian lifestyle was emulated by Beats, he did not like the movement for its artistic excess and lack of rigor; noted as an accomplished painter...

Gardner, Geoffrey, 1943-

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Szerlip, Barbara

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Sanchez, Thomas

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Piercy, Marge

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Ciani Forza, Daniela M.

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Benedict, Nannette

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Atsumi, Ikuko

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Anderson, Marta

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Shiffert, Edith Marcombe

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Biography The Time of Our Lives The circuses we get Are our own lives. The fight for survival is Our own tyranny and Our own entertainment. Edith M. Shiffert These lines spring from Edith Marion Marcombe Shiffert, Canadian born poet and translator of Japanese haiku masters. Her books are inspired by the natural and human worlds, and the aesthetic, philosophical and literary traditions of Japan. Many call her a religious poet, but ...

Atchity, Kenneth John.

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Kenneth John Atchity was born on Jan. 16, 1944 in Eunice, Louisiana, the son of Fred J. and Myrza (nee Aguillard) Atchity. He attended Georgetown University (A.B. 1965) and Yale University ( M.Phil. 1969; Ph.D. 1970). Atchity began his teaching career in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. He attained the rank of professor and taught regularly until 1985. During this period, he authored two books, Sleeping with an elephant: selected poems, ...

Lawless, Gary

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Roditi, Edouard

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Forché, Carolyn

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Thomas, Janet

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Teton Dam was located in Fremont County, Idaho, in the Teton River Canyon above Wilford. It had just been completed in 1976. On June 5, 1976, the earthen dam failed and an estimated 80 billion gallons of water swept downriver. The flood of water swept through Wilford, Sugar City, and Rexburg. Ricks College in Rexburg was spared for the most part, as it is located on a hill. Many residents of Rexburg and Sugar City spent the rest of the summer in Ricks College dorms. Further down the...

Handler, Esther, 1931-2001

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Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997

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Cyberpunk author and performance artist. From the description of Papers, 1975-1996 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271515 Cyberpunk author and performance artist. Acker died in 1997. From the description of Papers, 1973-1978. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271575 From the description of Kathy Acker papers, 1973-1996 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33429120 d. 1996. ...

Oden, Gloria

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Gidlow, Elsa, 1898-1986

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Editor, publisher, journalist, poet, and author; one of the first openly lesbian writers in the United States. From the description of Works, 1970, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 81092625 Biography Shortly after Elsa Gidlow's death Phyllis Matyi, Elsa's friend, attorney and executrix of the Gidlow estate, issued a press release presenting a biographical summary of Elsa's life. The text of t...

Dana, Robert, 1929-2010

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Argüelles, Ivan, 1939-

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Hamalian, Leo.

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Huerta, Albert

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Kuzma, Greg

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Racionero, Luis

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Adam, Helen, 1909-1993

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American poet born in Scotland. From the description of Postcard to Diane di Prima, 1967 Nov. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18347343 Helen Adam was born on Dec. 2, 1909 in Glasgow, Scotland and died in New York City on Sept. 19, 1993. She was a writer of Scottish ballads and later participated in the Beat poetry movement. From the description of Papers, 1956-1976. (Kent State University). WorldCat record id: 40718661 ...

Sakurai, Emiko, 1932-

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Lawler, Justus George

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Kray, Elizabeth D., 1916-1987

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Douskey, Franz

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Kodama, Sanehide, 1932-

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Everson, William, 1912-1994

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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...

Axelrod, Joseph, 1918-

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Shaker Community, Inc.

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Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949-....

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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born in Manila in 1949. She moved to San Francisco in 1963, where she studied at the American Conservatory Theater. In 1978 she moved to New York, where she continues to work as a playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet and performance artists. She has won several Macdowell Colony Fellowships and the American Book Award in 1990 for her novel, "Dogeaters." From the description of Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn papers, 1974-2006. (University of Californi...

Corman, Cid

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American poet and editor of the small magazine Origin. From the description of Letters : Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Mr. & Mrs. Kirgo, 1951 May 8-July 9. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32415686 Highly prolific poet, translator, and prose writer, Cid Corman was born in Boston in 1924. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Tufts University in 1941, graduating in 1945. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Universit...

Norse, Harold.

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American poet, critic, essayist, and editor. From the description of Poetry, prose writings, and translations, ca. 1953-1959. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530567 Harold Norse -- poet, critic and essayist -- was born in New York in 1916 and educated at Brooklyn College and New York University. Norse's book of poems, The undersea mountain, was published in 1953. Since then he has published 6 volumes of p...

Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003

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Kathleen Raine was born in London, her father was a schoolmaster, and the family strict Methodists. She was sent to stay with an aunt in rural Northumberland for the duration of World War I, an idyllic childhood period she later recalled in 'Farewell Happy Fields' (1973). She was educated at Ilford County High School and came to Girton as an Exhibitioner to read Natural Sciences then Moral Sciences 1926-29. While she was at Cambridge she began writing poetry and also made long-term friendships w...

Lattimore, Richmond, 1906-1984

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Milosz, Czeslaw

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Rexroth, Mary

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Gibson, Morgan, 1929-....

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Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...

Copperhead (Press)

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Rainer, Dachine

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Dachine Rainer: b. January 13, 1921, d. August 19, 2000. British writer and anarchist. From the description of Dachine Rainer interview, 1997. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81302978 ...

Matsui, Keiko, 1948-

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Morrow, Bradford, 1951-....

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Founded in 1981 by its editor, Bradford Morrow, who himself published the first three issues; subsequently published by David Godine, Collier Macmillan, and, beginning with issue 15 (1990) Bard College, where Morrow is professor of literature. Beginning with issue 14 (1989) it has constituted a semi-annual series of anthologies on a single topic, many of them guest-edited. Writers published in Conjunctions include many associated with Brown University, especially with the Graduate Program in Lit...

Kertesz, Louise, 1939-

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Tarn, Nathaniel

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American poet, translator, editor, and anthropologist with field work among the Highland Maya and Burmese Buddhists. From the description of Nathaniel Tarn papers, circa 1939-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462168967 Biography Nathaniel Tarn was born in Paris, France in 1928. His childhood in Belgium was disrupted in 1939, when the threat of World War II prompted the family's removal to England. After graduating in h...

Cooney, Rian

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Berry, Wendell, 1934-....

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American author and professor. From the description of Wendell Berry postcard : to Mr. Bob DeMott, 1973 July 14. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203844 ...

Rexroth, Katharine

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Copper Canyon Press

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Copper Canyon Press (CCP), a nonprofit publishing company, was founded in 1972 by Sam Hamill, poet and translator, and Holly (Tree) Swenson, book designer, in Denver, CO. In 1974 Hamill and Swenson relocated the company to Port Townsend, WA. They established the press to publish poetry exclusively, within the tradition of serious literary publishing. Their first titles were printed from hand-set type on antique letterpresses, but they soon began publishing more-affordable trade books. ...