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Eigner, Larry, February 23, 1965

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, item: 6

Dates

  • Creation: February 23, 1965

General

Topics of letter include read Cantos, Paterson; Olson observed [Eigner's] poem layouts - puncuation and scoring - due to the potentials of the typewriter; heard a BBC interview with John Cage and Edgar Varese on TV; feels the influence of concrete poetry; Malcolm X and Martin Luther King; trying to reread Scarlet Letter; prose piece in Joglars #2, out of Providence, RI also included F. Dawson, Russel Edson and essay on John Cage; read Wordsworth's "Personal Talk"; sent cash for books by Dorn and Jonathan Greene. Enclosed poem "Frederick Douglass"

Repository Details

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