Scope and Contents

This book was assembled from extra pages leftover from The Marrahwannah Quarterly Vol.3 No.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From WEB site of Kent State Archives: Biographical Note [written by Tom Kryss] Tom Kryss was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1948 and attended high school in Garfield Heights, where for a time he edited the school newspaper, established a literary magazine, and worked in the layout department of a local suburban weekly. In the summer of 1966, before his departure for the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, he came into contact with the bookseller James Lowell and the poet d.a. levy; and began to entertain the idea of self-publishing works of poetry. On campus at Northwestern he collected material for an independent literary magazine, and left school to earn money to publish it. In Chicago and Bensenville, Illinois, he met the independent publisher Douglas Casement and the poet Douglas Blazek, and observed first hand the production of their poetry magazine, broadsides, and chapbooks, via letterpress and mimeograph. It was through Casement's Fenian Head Center Press...