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Early XXth Century
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Authors A thru M {on Page 2} Authors N thru Z {just below}
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Ogden Nash [1902-71]
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"The Best of Ogden Nash: 450 Favorite Poems From America's Laureate of Light Verse" [2007] Edited by {his daughters} Linell Nash Smith & Isabel Nash Eberstadt Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2007] for $19.11 |
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"Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse" [2005] by Douglas M. Parker Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5½ pb [4/2007] for $12.89 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $20.90 |
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"The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash" [2000] by David Stuart Madison Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2000] for $18.96 |
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John O'Hara [1905-70]
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"John O'Hara's Hollywood, 1932-1974" [22 stories 2006] by John O'Hara, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli Da Capo Press / Carroll & Graf 8x5½ pb [1/2007] for $13.46 |
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"The Big Laugh" [1962] by John O'Hara Not O'Hara's best, but still O'Hara. Blindly-ambitious actor Hubie Ward lies, cheats, and seduces his way to the big-time in Hollywood. Ecco 8¾x5½ pb [10/97] for $16.00 |
writer-director Clifford Odets [1906-63]
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Clifford Odets papers at Indiana University
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playwright Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953] Page
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Dorothy Parker [1893-1967] Page
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S.J. Perelman [1904-79]
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Dawn Powell [1896-1965]
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"Dawn Powell: A Biography" [1998] by Tim Page Owl Books 9x6 pb [10/99] out of print/used Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/used |
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Dawn Powell: Novels, 19301942 [2001] Edited by Tim Page
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.60 includes "Dance Night" [1930], "Come Back To Sorrento" [1932], "Turn, Magic Wheel" [1936], "Angels On Toast" [1940] and "A Time To Be Born" [1942] Dawn Powell: Novels, 19441962 [2001] Edited by Tim Page Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.64 includes "My Home Is Far Away" autobiographical novel [1944], "The Locusts Have No King" [1948], "The Wicked Pavilion" [1954] and "The Golden Spur" [1962] Library of America's "Dawn Powell: Comic Genius" pages |
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Damon Runyon [1884-1946]
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Denver Press Club's Damon Runyon pages
"Damon Runyon Theater" radio program [1949] 50 episodes (of 52) on CD
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poet Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]
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Carl Sandburg Historic Site Assn.
'Chicago Poems' [1916] etext
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Connemara
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Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems [2006] Edited by Paul Berman American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.60 |
William Saroyan [1908-81] Page
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Delmore Schwartz [1913-66]
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Irving Shulman [1913-95]
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Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page
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Isaac Bashevis Singer [1904-71]
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"Isaac B. Singer: A Life" [1980] by Florence Noiville, translated by Catherine Temerson FS&G 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.64 |
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Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 1 [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $25.55 includes 54 stories: 'Gimpel The Fool' to 'The Letter Writer' Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 2 [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60 includes 65 stories: 'A Friend of Kafka' to 'Passions' Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 3 [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60 includes 80+ stories: 'One Night In Brazil' to 'The Death of Methuselah' Singer: An Album [2004] Edited by Ilan Stavans Library of America 8x5 pb [7/2004] for $11.01 Library of America's Singer Centennial Exhibit |
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H. Allen Smith [1907-76]
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Lillian (Eugenia) Smith [1897-1966] of Georgia
a talented & courageous Southern writer who fought Jim Crow segregation & other offenses from the 1930s
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Inspired by Billy Holiday's 1939 hit record. One hot Georgia August, a rebel child returns from World War I and declares his love for a local girl; but he is white and she is black – and she is pregnant with his child. Harvest Books pb [7/92] for $9.89 Signet/NAL mass pb [3/48] out of print/used Buccaneer Books hardcover [12/94] out of print/used Reynal & Hichock hardcover [1944] out of print/used |
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One Hour [1959 novel] by Lillian Smith
An early fictional attack on McCarthyism: "A child's shocking accusation brings tragic consequences to a brilliant scientist, his wife, and a town" Univ NC Press 8x5¼ pb [9/94] out of print/many used Univ NC Press 8½x5½ hardcover [9/94] out of print/used Harcourt, Brace hardcover[1959] out of print/used |
expatriate Gertrude Stein [1874-1946]
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'Tender Buttons' Gertrude Stein fansite
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"Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice" [2007] by Janet Malcolm Yale Univ Press 7¾x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.50 publisher's book page |
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Stein: Writings, 1903-1932 [1998] Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/98] for $29.20 includes posthumous novel "Q.E.D." [from 1903], "Three Lives" [3 novellas 1909], libretto "Four Saints In Three Acts" [1929], "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" [1933], and other short works Stein: Writings, 1932-1946 [1998] Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson Library of America 8x5 hardcover [3/98] for $29.20 includes "Lectures In America" [1934], "The Geographical History of America" [1936], libretto "Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights" [1938], children's book "The World Is Round" [1938], "Brewsie and Willie" [1946] and libretto "The Mother of Us All" [1949] |
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poet Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]
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http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Wallace-Stevens/dp/0679726691/
"The Man With The Blue Guitar" [1937]
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Jesse Stuart [1906-84] of Kentucky
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Jesse Stuart Foundation [est. 1979]
Jesse Stuart State Nature Preserve in Greenup County, KY
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"Jesse: The Biography of An American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart" [1984] by H. Edward Richardson McGraw-Hill hardcover [1/84] out of print/used "A Jesse Stuart Reader: Stories & Poems" [McGraw-Hill 1963] Edited by Jesse Stuart Jesse Stuart Foundation 8½x5½ pb with study guide [9/2003] for $10.20 Jesse Stuart Foundation 9x6 hardcover [1/93] for $22.00 |
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James Thurber [1894-1961] Page
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Nathanael West [1903-40]
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West: Novels and Other Writings [1997] Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/97] out of print/used includes novels "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" [1931], "Miss Lonelyhearts" [1933], "A Cool Million" [1934] & "The Day of The Locust" [1939], plus stories, film scripts & correspondence |
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"The Day of The Locust" [Jan 1939 classic] by Nathanael West
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) NAL pb [9/83] for $5.95 Amereon hardcover [12/97] for $19.95 DH Audio ABR [9/87] 2 tapes out of print/used |
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"The Day of The Locust" feature film [Paramount May 1975]
Directed by John Schlesinger; starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni & Billy Barty Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $14.23 Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
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Edith Wharton: Novels [1986] Edited by R.W.B. Lewis
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [5/86] for $26.40 includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "The Reef" [1912], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920] Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings [1990] Edited by Cynthia Griffin Wolff Library of America hardcover [4/90] for $29.25 includes "Madame de Treymes" [1907], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "Summer" [1917], "Old New York: Four Novellas" [1924], "The Mother's Recompense" [1925], and "A Backward Glance" [1934] Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 18911910 [2001] Edited by Maureen Howard Library of America 8&5¼ hardcover [1/2001] for $25.55 includes "The Touchstone" [1900], "Sanctuary", "The Eyes" and 35 other stories Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 19111937 [2001] Edited by Maureen Howard Library of America hardcover [2/2001] for $25.55 includes "Xingu" [1916], "The Marne", "A Bottle of Perrier", "All Souls", "Roman Fever" [1934] and 24 other stories Edith Wharton: Selected Poems [2005] Edited by Louis Auchincloss American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $15.60 Wharton: Four Novels [1996] Edited by R.W.B. Lewis & Cynthia Griffin Wolff Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [10/96] for $13.95 includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920] |
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Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
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"The Eighth Day: A Novel" [1967 bestseller] by Thornton Wilder
Won the National Book Award, both murder mystery and philosophical story. Two families in a mining town in southern Illinois are blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other; the accused killer miraculously escapes on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom alters the fate of both men's wives and children. Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2007] for $11.48 Amereon Ltd. 9x6¼ hardcover [12/98] out of print/used Harper & Row 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1967] out of print/many, many used |
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Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings On Theater [2007] Edited by J.D. McClatchy Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $34.20 includes Pulitzer-winning "Our Town" [1938], Pulitzer-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" [1942], "The Matchmaker" [1954], "Shadow of A Doubt" [1942 screenplay], 18 other full-length plays, six one-act plays, 14 uncollected plays, and 14 essays on theater Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 19261948 [2009] Edited by J.D. McClatchy Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $23.10 
includes "The Cabala" [1926], Pulitzer-winning "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" [1927], "The Woman of Andros" [1930], "Heavens My Destination" [1935], "The Ides of March" [1948], plus 6 stories & 4 essays |
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Tennessee Williams [1911-83]
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"Remember Me To Tom" memoir by his mother
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"The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams" [1985] by Donald Spoto Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/97] for $18.95 Ballantine mass pb [3/86] out of print/many used Little, Brown hardcover [3/85] out of print/many used |
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Tennessee Williams: Plays, 19371955 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40 includes "Spring Storm" [1937], "Not About Nightingales" [1938], "The Glass Menagerie" [1944], "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947], "Summer and Smoke" [1948], "The Rose Tattoo" [1951], "Camino Real" [1953], Pulitzer Prizewinning "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" [1955] & 12 other plays Tennessee Williams: Plays, 19571980 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40 includes "Orpheus Descending" [1957], "Suddenly, Last Summer" [1958], "Sweet Bird of Youth" [1959], "Period of Adjustment" [1960], "The Night of The Iguana" [1961], "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" [1963], "The Mutilated" [1966], "Kingdom of Earth" [1968], "Small Craft Warnings" [1972], "Out Cry" [1973], "Vieux Carrι" [1977] & "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" [1979] |
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Thomas Wolfe [1900-38]
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Thomas Wolfe Web Site at University of North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe Memorial [est. 1949] in Asheville, NC
Thomas Wolfe Society [est. 1979]
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"Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography" [2007] Edited by Ted Mitchell Pegasus Books 10x7 pb [3/2007] for $17.16 |
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"Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe" [1987] by David Herbert Donald which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $21.50 Little, Brown hardcover [3/89] out of print/many used Ballantine/Fawcett pb [2/88] out of print/many used |
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"The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe" [1989] Edited by Francis E. Skipp, Foreword by James Dickey Scribner/Collier 9x6 pb [5/89] for $27.50 |
Jack Woodford [1894-1971]
{real name Josiah Pitts Woolfolk}
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"City Limits" novel [1932] by Jack Woodford
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William Godwin, Inc. hardcover [1932] out of print/used
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"City Limits" feature film [Monogram Pictures April 1934]
A railroad tycoon under great pressure in a merger is sent on vacation by his doctor; the tycoon falls off his private railcar and lands in a hobo jungle, and learns how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible. Directed by William Nigh; loosely adapted by George Waggner from the novel by Jack Woodford; starring Frank Craven, Sally Blane, Frank Albertson, Ray Walker, Claude Gillingwater, James Burke, Jimmy Conlin, Jane Keckley, Henry Roquemore, George 'Gabby' Hayes & George Cleveland VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available full credits at IMDb |
 | "Trial and Error: A Dithyramb On The Subject of Writing & Selling" [1935] by Jack Woodford, Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, editor of Esquire Kessinger Publng 8¾x6 pb [3/2007] for $23.52 Woodford Memorial Editions 8¼x5½ pb [6/80] out of print/used Kessinger Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2008] for $34.92 Garden City Publng 7¾x5¼ hardcover [1940] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Writing and Selling" [1940] by Jack Woodford, Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, editor of Esquire Perma Giants Edition hardcover [1949] out of print/used Star Books hardcover [1940] out of print/used |
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"Father Steps Out" [Monogram Pictures July 1941]
remake of "City Limits" [1934] above; directed by Jean Yarbrough; script by George Waggner, without credit to Jack Woodford; starring Jed Prouty, Lorna Gray, Frank Albertson, Frank Faylen, John Dilson, Charlie Hall, Kathryn Sheldon & Tristram Coffin VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available full credits at IMDb |
 | "Why Write A Novel?" [Murray & Gee 1943] by Jack Woodford later self-published as "How To Write and Sell A Novel" HTWSN: Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [3/2007] for $21.24 HTWSN: Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [6/2008] for $32.64 HTWSN: Woodford Press hardcover [1948] out of print/used "WWAN?" book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Jack Woodford On Writing" [1980] Compiled, selected, and edited by Jess E. Stewart includes Introductory Notes, Writer's Cramp (complete), Trial and Error (excerpts), How To Write and Sell A Novel (excerpts), How To Write For Money (excerpts), Plotting (excerpts), and 'Citizen Arrest' (short story) Woodford Memorial Editions pb [4/81] out of print/used |
"The Ghost of Jack Woodford" biography [2005] by Keith Nichols
Woodford Memorial Editions pb [2005] out of print/scarce
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Harold Bell Wright [1872-1944]
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"The Shepherd of The Hills [1919 silent]
"The Winning of Barbara Worth" [1926 silent] starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bαnky & Gary Cooper
"The Shepherd of The Hills" [1928]
"The Shepherd of The Hills" [1941] starring John Wayne
Authors A to Z Books at Amazon.com
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Charles Bukowski [1920-94] Page
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Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97] Page
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Gregory Corso [1930-2001] Page
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Diane DiPrima
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers [est. 1953] of San Francisco, CA
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Dr. Timothy Leary [1920-96]
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'Declaration of Evolution' fansite
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Michael McClure
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Henry Miller [1891-1980]
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Kenneth Patchen [1911-72]
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"Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America" [2000] by Larry Smith Bottom Dog Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2000] for $25.95 |
Gary Snyder
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Anne Waldman
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Poetspath's Anne Waldman page
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