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|    Re: The Poetry of Harry Kemp (2/2)    |
|    16 Jan 25 03:26:49    |
      [continued from previous message]              >> Kemp's reputation had declined into obscurity by the time of his death       >> in       >> 1960; but his role in the history of modern American literature and the       >> American Left has brought renewed interest and further publication of       >> his       >> work.       >       >> There is a street named for him, Harry Kemp Way, in Provincetown.       >       >> In 1995, the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce made plans to create a       >> First       >> Landing Park to commemorate the Pilgrims' voyage in 1620. Ms. Ruth       >> Hiebert       >> made a donation in the name of her late father, Dr. Daniel Hieber, who,       >> along with Harry Kemp, the celebrated "Tramp Poet" of the 1920s literary       >> world who abandoned Greenwich Village for life in a Provincetown dune       >> shack,       >> would reenact the first landing every year, complete with dubious       >> costumes       >> Kemp imagined the intrepid voyagers might have worn."It was all somewhat       >> silly, but it did keep the true history alive," Ms. Hiebert told the       >> Globe.       >       >> Publications       >> The Cry of Youth. New York: Kennerley, 1914.       >> The Thresher's Wife. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1914.       >> The Passing God: Songs for lovers (with introduction by Richard Le       >> Gallienne). New York: Brentano's, 1919; London: Brentano's, 1922.       >> Chanteys and Ballads: Sea-chanteys, tramp-ballads, and other ballads and       >> poems. New York: Brentano's, 1920.       >> The Sea and the Dunes, and other poems. New York: Brentano's, 1926.       >> Don Juan's Note-Book. New York: privately published; printed by Alex L.       >> Hillman, 1929.       >> Where Now Green Gardens? Harry answers Omar. Provincetown, MA:       >> Provincetown       >> Publishers, 1945.       >> The Poet's Life of Christ: Songs of the living Lord. Provincetown, MA:       >> Provincetown Publishers, 1946.       >> Provincetown Tideways (1948)       >> Poet of the Dunes: Songs of the dunes and the outer shore, with others       >> in       >> varying modes and moods. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Publishers,       >> 1952;       >> Provincetown, MA: Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 1988.       >> Rhyme of Provincetown Nicknames. Providence, MA: Providence Publishers,       >> 1954.       >       >> ------------------------------------------------------------       >       >> Found in Drafts file.       >       >       > Again... Kemp is quite fantastic....!              Again, agreed.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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