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Harry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection

October 23, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection. The collection was started in the early 1970s by Dean Echenberg, a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War who later became the director of disease control for the City of San Francisco during the first years of the AIDS crisis. [Read more…] about Harry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection

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“The Attempt to Keep Day and Night Together”

October 23, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

An interview with Dean F. Echenberg on his war poetry collection

The Ransom Center is the new home for the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, a collection of more than 6,500 volumes of poetry related to people’s experiences with war. The collection was begun in the early 1970s by Dr. Echenberg, a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War who later served as an emergency room staff physician in Detroit Receiving Hospital, worked in private family practice, and served as Director of Disease Control in San Francisco during the first years of the AIDS crisis. [Read more…] about “The Attempt to Keep Day and Night Together”

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Dean F. Echenberg, Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, poetry, Vietnam War, WWI, WWII

A nomad’s writing finds a home

September 25, 2017 - Stephen Enniss

Q&A with Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje began his career as a poet but is best known as the author of the 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient, which was made into a critically-acclaimed motion picture. He was born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1943; he moved to Canada at age 18. [Read more…] about A nomad’s writing finds a home

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Canada, Man Booker Prize, Michael Ondaatje, PEN, poet, poetry, Sri Lanka, steven enniss, The English Patient

A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

April 27, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

The first page of A Wild Plaint, 1909. Christopher Morley Collection.

In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board of the Book-of-the-Month Club). [Read more…] about A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A Wild Plaint, A. K. White, African American Review, African-American, Aubrey Grey, Chicago, Christopher Morley, Danielle Brune Sigler, diary, Doubleday, Fenton Johnson, fiction, manuscript, novel, poet, poetry

Claude McKay and “The White House”

February 16, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

Photograph of Claude McKay, taken for 'Home to Harlem' promotion, c. 1928.

This February saw the release of a previously unpublished Claude McKay novel, Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin Classics). [Read more…] about Claude McKay and “The White House”

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Long Way from Home, African American History Month, Black History Month, Claude McKay, Danielle Brune Sigler, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows, Home to Harlem, Max Eastman, poem, poetry, Survey magazine, The Liberator, The New Negro, The White House, White Houses, William A. Bradley Literary Agency collection

Meet the Staff: Q&A with Visual Materials Assistant Michael Gilmore

December 12, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Q&A with Visual Materials Assistant Michael Gilmore

Filed Under: Meet the Staff Tagged With: archives, Books, bookstore, employee, library assistant, Lyrika, Meet the Staff, Michael Gilmore, poetry, Reading Room, Restless Astronomy, staff profile, visual materials assistant

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