Office files of The American Poetry Review, 1971-1996.

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Office files of The American Poetry Review, 1971-1996.

Comprises 26 items, 40 leaves correspondence plus manuscripts for publication.Contains an essay by Ginsberg about Ezra Pound. Includes an interview of Ginsberg by Gary Pacernick. Also contains correspondence with Andrew Wylie Agency; Beverly Jane Loo and Joan S. Pollack of McGraw-Hill Book Company; J. Laughlin of New Directions Publishing Corp.; Jeffrey Posterneck of Wylie, Aitken ? Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia (Jewish Ys and Centers of Greater Philadelphia); Emily Wright and Georgia McFadden; and Gordon Ball. Oversize galley in folder 5245.

9 folders.

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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 ...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

Loo, Beverly Jane.

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Wright, Emily Allredge, 1876-

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Pacerneck, Gary.

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Andrew Wylie Agency.

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Laughlin, John C. H.

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Jewish Ys and Centers of Greater Philadelphia

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Posterneck, Jeffrey.

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McFadden, Georgia.

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Ball, Gordon.

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McGraw-Hill book company

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Wylie, Aitken & Stone.

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