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   W.Dockery to General-Zod   
   Re: The Poetry of Harry Kemp (2/2)   
   16 Jan 25 03:26:49   
   
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   >> 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.   
   >   
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   >   
   >> Found in Drafts file.   
   >   
   >   
   > Again... Kemp is quite fantastic....!   
      
   Again, agreed.   
      
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