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Cendrars essay on "The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Litte Jeanne of France" held by Sackner Archive, is included in this volume. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is primarily a photodocumentation of the Beat Poetry movement and also includes reproductions of Beat documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Joel Lipman quotes from the Sackner Archive catalogue of 1984 on page 170 of the Sackners opinion of levy's works. Douglas Manson contributes a scathing rview of Mike Golden's book, The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle." The dvd is an edited copy of a documentary film "if i scratch, if i write" about da levy by Kon Petrochuk first made in 1985 and fully realized for this book.Page 28 "February 1967 sees the launching of the Underground Thought Patrol, so named by John Scott, as a way of bluffing about inside sources of information, and playing off the group's interest in telepathy (Scott named it after a Frank Zappa song, "Who Are the Brain Police?"). A photo from an earlier Gate reading assigned those in the photo as the UTP, including: rjs, D.r. Wagner, Kent Taylor, John Cornillon, Walter R. Keller, Carl Woideck. The group is projected tribe of sympathetic listeners who announce police warnings and have great fun cutting up; the first time the term UTP appears in print is in...

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The enclosed sheet is a reprint of an article describing Sonnenfeld as an experimental street poet. He has a background in classical piano and guitar and composition, but turned to poetry to vent his creativity in another direction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is edited by Antonio Claudio Carvalho. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is edited by Antonio Claudio Carvalho. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poems are related to the writer's mental status. This publication is edited by Antonio Claudio Carvalho. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The obituary of Johnson states that during hikes with Jonathan Williams on the Appalachian Trail, through the English Lake District, and throughout Europe. According to this obiturary, Johnson learned to become a writer by "paying attention to what he saw." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collection of essays in which poet and playwright McClure reviews his own career and that of his fellow poets - in doing so, he includes many poems by Charles Olson, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and others. Illustrated with photographs by Larry Keenan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The two-part exhibition "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters" was organized by Rodney Phillips, curator of the Berg Collection, as part of the Centennial celebration of The New York Public Library. This catalogue is based on the exhibitions which presented writers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with drafts, letters, diaries. photographs and memorabilia in a personal and intimate setting. An essay by Dana Gioia, "The Prado of Poetry: A History of the Berg Collection" describes the background of Dr. Albert and Dr. Henry Berg and how their collection became one of the world's primary sources for literary research on American and English writers. In a scholarly introductory essay, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," Dana Gioia writes, "The manuscript of a literary work became more than words; it represented a direct and unmediated physical link between viewer and author - a holy relic or shamanistic fetish...The scholarly alibi of libraries that...

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Saunders writes about his career in graduate school and his philosophy of life with his wife Brenda. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edkition, first printing of the book. Page 202 mentions Merton's periodical "Monk's Pond" and his concrete poetry on page 502. The Sackner Archive also holds two original typewriter poems by Mott.Wikipedia: Michael Mott was born in London. His father was a solicitor and his mother was a sculptor from Denver, Colorado. Mott was educated in America and England. After his service in the British Army, he attended Oriel College of Oxford University, then art school and a year traveling in Europe and the Middle East. Mott then began his literary career taking a job in 1956 as the editor of trade journal, Air Freight. In 1957, his first collection of poetry, The Cost of Living, was published. On May 6 1961, Mott married Margaret Watt, a fashion designer, at St. John's Wood Church, London. In 1962, as the couple welcomed twin daughters, Mott's first novel The Notebooks of Susan Berry was published. Reviewer Kenneth Allsop writing for the Daily Mail called the book, "a...