American poetry -- 20th century

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"For Peace on Earth and Good Will to All Men - Defeat Hooverism in 1947!" A collection of poems ) with New Year's greetings from Fred, Elizabeth and Billy Blair.

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90 cassette tapes containing poetry readings from the collection of Beat-Poet B.L. Kennedy.

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"Holiday Greetings!...Ho-Hum! Two hundred years have gone; Another hundred lies ahead...." A poem "from Mary and Fred Blair." Includes an illustration of a peace dove above a symbol of nuclear energy.

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"First Flight: Milwaukie-Detroit-Cleveland and return." Long poem with author's introductory notes on the poem.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...

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"Human Rights - Blatherskites...Sing a song of blatherskites/Intoning hymns to 'human rights/Here in the land of hyupocrites...."

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Juanita Bourns, born in Woodward, OK, was a poet, english teacher. The collection consists of the photocopy of the manuscript of "Metaphysical Letters to Virginia" and a handwritten cover letter regarding the manuscript.

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"'The philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.' So wrote the greatest philosopher of modern times, the world-changer, Karl Marx....Good will to all men and women of all races and nations! Mary and Fred Blair."

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"Our Brother Bill." A poem dedicated to the American members of the International Brigade who fought Fascism in Spain.

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A collection of poems by Fred Blair. Includes three poems composed by Fred Blair's sister, Naomi Blair. Also featured on the cover is a photo-reproduction of his son and daughter-in-law with their 9 hour-old granddaughter; stamps honoring Chilean patriots; and a political cartoon featuring Abraham Lincoln and Richard Nixon.