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This book tells the story--through his published work, selections fromunpublished manuscripts, 44 drawings not seen publicly prior to this publication and abiographical introduction by co-editor Bud Johns--of Herman Spector. This writer of the late Twenties and the Thirties, whose experimental work influenced then-radical poets who came out of that period, continued to write during the last two decades of his life in New York but never again submitted his talents to the opinion of editors, critics and the public.
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" '1929 and a decade audible in these poems. The poetry tells this story, the tones of the poetry, even the borrowed tones, which are dreams, tell the story of a man who risked himself for the hope of a poetry that would isolate no man and no thing, that would seem to him in no way 'privileged' and he became perhaps the loneliest of the impoverished men of his time and I believe he must have become afraid. Before he died, fear had abolished his poetry.'
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George Oppen never met Herman Spector but he knew his work and, as the lines above and those which follow establish, he also knew the man.
" 'Yes, I think (he) stopped short, or was stopped...Yes, sure his spirit failed (but) he did a great deal more than most men have.'
"Bastard in the Ragged Suit tells the story--through his published work, selections from unpublished manuscript fragments, his drawings and a biographical introduction--of Herman Spector. This writer of the late Twenties and the Thirties, whose experimental work influenced then-radical poets who came out of that period, continued to write during the last two decades of his life in New York but never again submitted his talents to the opinion of editors, critics and public.
" 'A rare talent, a rare person,' recalls Albert Halper. 'His was an original talent and his work deserves to be known today.'"
Herman Spector was born in New York City in 1905 and died there the day before his 54th birthday. The title to this book comes from his poem "Outcast", first published in 1929 in New Masses where he was a contributing editor and later included in the musch-praised collection We Gather Strength. He was a co-editor of the literary mag-azine Blues (until he rejected a role as a protege of Ezra Pound), a founding editor of theinfluential Dynamo and a member of the WPA Writers' Project before his withdrawal as an actively publishing writer.
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- PublisherSynergistic Pr
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0912184035
- ISBN 13 9780912184036
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
- EditorBud Johns And Judith S. Clancy
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tall 8vos. [10], 206 pages. Collected verse and prose writings, with illustrative material, of the American radical writer of the late 1920's and 1930's (1905-59); notable for the 3 previously unpublished collections ('Living Folklore', 'Call Me Porkchop', and 'All the Speeches of the Presidents') as well as Spector's illustrations. Editors' introduction and notes. A very good+ copy in very good+ dust jacket with slight rubbing to jacket; slight stains and bumping to foredges; else a near fine copy.Spector, Herman (illustrator); Over 30 b/w Illustrations. Seller Inventory # L045494
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