I’m anticipating a similar issue in a lit studies class this week & am planning to emphasize again & again developing familiarity with local sites in readings as a way into into new thinking rather than comprehension of a full text.
One of my favorite moments researching for this article was reconstructing this series of events from Hernton's FBI file. Seeing agents dispatched to NYPL at 42nd & 5th looking for copies of the little mag Umbra--a bizarre, revealing snapshot of Cold War aesthetic surveillance.
Yes—thanks, Gabriel.
This Kraus doc is especially great. I met with Nancy Shapiro recently in NY & it confirmed how important it will be to write about T&W v soon.
& a new article, "'Chicago comes to be its own source ': Little Magazines and Chicago’ s New York School Print Culture," in the new issue of Chicago Review: www.chicagoreview.org/issues/66-03...
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"Stronger Magic," an essay on poet Harry Fainlight at Poetry Foundation: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/160...
Harry Fainlight was a Beat visionary overshadowed by his famous friends and sidelined by mental illness. His legacy is ripe for reassessment.