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The collected poems of George Mackay Brown

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Description: George Mackay Brown is recognized as one of Scotland's great 20th-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature during the last fifty years. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn, his poems are deeply individual and unmistakable in their setting: 'the small green world' of the Orkney Islands where he lived for most of his life, with its elemental forces of sea and sky and Norse and Icelandic ancestry, is brought to life. Here, his poetry is collected in one volume, making available again many poems that are otherwise out of print.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2006.
Call number: 660856
Creator: Brown, George Mackay(Opens in new tab)

The collected shorter poems

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This volume brings together all of Kenneth Rexroth's shorter poems from 1920 to the present, including a group of new poems written since the publication of Natural Numbers, drawn from seven earlier books. Among the American poets of the generation that came to prominence in the Forties, Kenneth Rexroth has been notable both for the independence of his personal voice and for his accessibility to the tradition of international avant-garde literature. He began writing and publishing in magazines at fifteen. His earliest work was personal and concrete, much like that of the Imagists. In his twenties he wrote in the disassociative style--sometimes called "literary cubism "--developed by Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Reverdy. This was not free association, but the conscious disassociation and recombination of the elements of the poem to achieve the highest possible level of significance. With his later books Rexroth moved back to a direct and classically simple form of personal statement. In this period he wrote the great nature poems, the love poems, and the contemplative lyrics that have established his reputation as one of the most important American poets.

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Olé no. 5

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Publisher: Open Skull Press (Bensenville, Ill.) Related Content: "The old pro" (p. 1, introduction) Note: Issue is dedicated to the poetry of Harold Norse and reactions to his work by various authors and poets. "D41" written in ms. in upper right corner of title page. Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski

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George Sterling collection

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A collection of approximately 70 poems and sonnets and three letters written by George Sterling. The poems and sonnets are typewritten and autograph, many are signed and some are incomplete. The poems and sonnets deal with, among other subjects, World War I, love, revenge, change, Carmel, California, and Jack London. One of the poems, "The northern star, the northern wind..." was found on the floor beside Sterling's deathbed and was possibly his last poem. The letters are written to Ambrose Bierce and Edwin Markham.

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George Sterling collection

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Brock Collection: Papers of James Brown

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Business records, legal papers, correspondence and miscellaneous documents of James Brown, his family and business associates, particularly Robert Burton and Robert Rives. Included are: correspondence about Brown's land holdings in Kentucky and Ohio, papers relating to the long litigation in settling the estate of Burton, whose widow married Brown, as well as complication in the matter of the estates of Mr. & Mrs. Brown in connection with the claims of the two sets of her children. There is also material regarding the liquidation of the firm Brown, Rives & Co

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Brown, George P.-Estate - Brown, George W

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Personal and business papers of George Smith Patton, Sr., and his family including wife Ruth Wilson Patton, son General George S. Patton, and daughter Anne Wilson Patton. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, receipts, tax documents, estate papers, maps, photographs, ephemera, etc. There is some General George S. Patton related material in the collection; most of which is in the Anne Wilson Patton series (finance documents). Box 42 contains correspondence by General George S. Patton (photocopies), his wife Beatrice, and their children. The collection also contains several photographs of General George S. Patton. There is some information amongst the real estate-related papers about racial restrictions in the San Gabriel Valley.

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