A poet's petition : letter to the President in the form of a cantata for a narrator and two voices with film strip or slides [typescript], ca. 1962.

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A poet's petition : letter to the President in the form of a cantata for a narrator and two voices with film strip or slides [typescript], ca. 1962.

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Consists of one typescript, a poem in cantata form, addressed to the President of the United States, discussing the danger of nuclear war, and national and world social and political issues, in a manner reflective of Lowenfels radicalism, including an invocation of Patrice Lumumba.

11 leaves.

New-York Historical Society

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Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976

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Walter Lowenfels began working on New jazz poets in 1962 to collect a group of poems written in a "modern rhythm influenced by street sounds and other non-literary sounds of the 1960s" that would be anthologized and a select few recorded for an album. Released in 1967, the album contained readings by twenty-one poets. The anthology containing the works of over seventy poets was published in 1970 as In a time of revolution, poems from our third world. From the description of New jazz ...

Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961

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