Eigner, Larry, February 23, 1965
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
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository