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Spoken word recordings by Archibald MacLeish, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg.

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This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.

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Tapes, clippings, periodicals, correspondence of the San Francisco poet and publisher (b.1919); archives of the poetry journal Beatitude; draft and galleys of Ferlinghetti: A Biography by Neeli Cherkovski (Doubleday, 1979); manuscripts by writer Charles Plymell (1935- ); a poster of Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore; and other material.

Abstract Fire was a London-based poetry magazine, edited by Dr. Joseph H. Berke, an American-born psychotherapist based in London. It was part of the underground press movement of the 1960s and 70s. Issue no. 2 was produced in a run of 3000 copies that were printed by the Poets' and Painters' Press, London. Issue no. 2 contains works by Dodo von Greiff, Che Guevara, Harry Trevor, Gary Snyder, Georg Johannesen, Spike Hawkins, Hans Broeg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jutta Werner, Julian Beck, Calvin...

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The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence, ephemera, and artwork related to poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his life; also included are correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and edits compiled by Geoffrey Gardner for a Kenneth Rexroth festschrift published in 1980.