Xerox candy bar [manuscript], circa 1976.

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Xerox candy bar [manuscript], circa 1976.

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According to friend and memoist Keith Abbott, Brautigan was commissioned to do a broadside poem. He practiced writing larger than his normal small script on this sheet torn from a tablet. Brautigan later gave the sheet to Abbott and it is not known if a finished version was ever completed. Later published in "The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster."

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Brautigan, Richard

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Edna Webster was a close personal friend of Brautigan's. Her son, Peter, was Brautigan's best friend during the time these materials were written. Her daughter, Linda, was Brautigan's "first love." From the description of Richard Brautigan papers, [195-]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122556663 American writer (novelist, poet). Born Tacoma, Washington, January 30 1935. Died Bolinas, California, September 1984. For many, Brautigan was a quintessent...

Abbott, Keith, 1944-....

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