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William Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. [ 1 ]
American primitive guitar is a fingerstyle guitar music genre, developed by the American guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s. While the term "American primitivism" has been used as a name for the genre, [ 1 ] American primitive guitar is distinct from the primitivism art movement.
American primitive guitar is a subset of fingerstyle guitar. It originated with John Fahey , whose recordings from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s inspired many guitarists such as Leo Kottke , who made his debut recording of 6- and 12-String Guitar on Fahey's Takoma label in 1969.
American Primitive is a play by William Gibson about the lives of John and Abigail Adams. Gibson used the correspondence of John and Abigail Adams to create a verse drama about the period of the American Revolution. American Primitive debuted, unsuccessfully, at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in 1969.
William J. Smith may refer to: Bill Smith (baseball manager), 19th century baseball manager; William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician) (1823–1913) William J. Smith (Maryland politician) (1850–1906), American politician; William Jay Smith (1918–2015), American poet
Fahey in studio with Recording King guitar, c. 1970 While Fahey lived in Berkeley, Takoma Records was reborn through a collaboration with Maryland friend ED Denson.Fahey decided to track down blues legend Bukka White by sending a postcard to Aberdeen, Mississippi; White had sung that Aberdeen was his hometown, and Mississippi John Hurt had been rediscovered using a similar method.
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William Jay Smith, Celebration at Dark [13] Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn, includes "The Auroras of Autumn," "Large Red Man Reading," "In a Bad Time," "The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract," "Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight," "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," and "A Primitive Like an Orb"), Knopf [15] Peter Viereck, Strike Through the Mask!