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William Carlos Williams

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Contempo records, 1930-1934

Contempo · 1930

Records of 'Contempo, a review of books and personalities', the Chapel Hill literary magazine, covering 1930 to 1934, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4408. Milton Abernethy and Tony Buttitta are among the people covered, along with writers the magazine dealt with: William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings and H. L. Mencken.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.

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Start at OCPL

Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 378.756 DUB Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community Duberman, Martin B. · 1972

    Black Mountain College, the experimental school near Asheville that ran from 1933 to 1957, as Martin Duberman reconstructed it from interviews. He follows teachers and students such as Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley through the college's repeated reinventions and quarrels and the money troubles that dogged it to the end. First edition, New York, Dutton, 1972; 527 pages, illustrated.

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