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A collection of essays, poems, and documents honoring Kenneth Rexroth. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Carlos Williams, Objectivist Poets, Kenneth Rexroth, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Mary Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Basil Bunting, Michael Davidson, Michael Heller, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Robert Mcalmon, National Poetry Foundation. Excerpt:Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 17 April 1985) was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. He was an accomplished reader of his own work. Biography Born into a Quaker family in Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland (now part of Newcastle upon Tyne ), Bunting was educated at the Royal Grammar School there for two years. He then studied at two Quaker schools: from 1912 1916 at Ackworth School in Yorkshire and from 1916 1918 at Leighton Park School in Berkshire . . His Quaker education strongly influenced his pacifist opposition to World War I , and in 1918 he was arrested as a conscientious objector , serving a sentence of more than a year in Wormwood Scrubs and Winchester prisons . These events were to have an important role in his first major poem, "Villon" (1925). "Villon" was one of a rather rare set of complexly structured poems that Bunting labelled "sonatas," thus underlining the sonic qualities of his verse and recalling his love of music. After his release from prison in 1920, traumatized by the time spent in jail, Bunting went to London, where he enrolled in the London School of Economics , and had his first contacts with journalists, social activists and Bohemia. Tradition has it that it was Nina Hamnett who introduced him to the works of Ezra Pound by lending him a copy of Homa... ... Read more

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Chapters: George Seaton, Jon Gruden, Kenneth Rexroth, Sydney Pollack, Archie Frederick Collins, Ryan Newman, Jeremy Michael Boorda, Nicole Rash, Michael Alig, Timothy J. Roemer, David Smith, David Stremme, James Oliver, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Grass Green, Al From, Bill Doba, Chad Everett, Richard Alexander, Dale Messick, Jim Gilstrap, Jimmy King, Eric F. Wieschaus, Lee Nailon, Skylar Diggins, Jaraan Cornell, Les Edgerton, Dickie Thon, Steve True, Clement Studebaker, Joe Kernan, E. Michael Jones, Michael Warren, Jules C. Stein, Ted Leo, Ron Norsworthy, Jeff Reinebold, John Bromfield, Chris Redfern, Rick Florian, Scott Dreisbach, Warren Muck, Alex Penkala, Jennifer A. Hillman, Clement Studebaker, Jr., Eva Jones, F. Jay Nimtz, Susan Choi, Joe Domnanovich, Daniel Anthony Manion, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Nancy Priddy, Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr., Lloyd Haynes, Kelvin Anderson, Keith Alan Morris, Jerry Scott, Pat Filley, Narsai David, Ron Fellows, Ernest Allen, Jennifer Strahl, Mark Hazinski, Tom Abernethy, Dean Norris, Beatrice Carmichael, Abraham L. Brick, Michael Murphy, George Ford, Samuel C. Sample, John Laskowski, Irene Vernon, John Broden, Casimir Witucki, John Kovatch, Tom Ehlers, Steve Bagarus, Jim Sniadecki, David L. Niezgodski, Richard Meredith, Ellen Akins, List of South Bend residents, Dan Harrigan, Kevin Tuite, Paul Schuette, Robert Churchwell, Matt Cushing, Brandi Borr, Larry Karaszewski,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 290. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jon David Gruden (born August 17, 1963 in Sandusky, Ohio) is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. Prior to taking over as coach of Tampa Bay, he was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders for 4 years. The Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII in the team's first year under Grude...http://booksllc.net/?id=1085026 ... Read more