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published poem, a 5-line piece entitled âGrief,â appeared in the first issue in
November 1934, and five other poems, including one published anonymously and two under the pseudonym "Mernos," and one short story appeared in other issues. In 1935 two other poems were published in a small literary magazine called "The Bard." By this time Vazakas had written 1,500 poems. All but 22 of them were destroyed at his request when Vazakas said that he had found his true poetic voice. When discussing his career in later years, Vazakas never mentioned either "The Galleon" or "The Bard" or the large body of early work.
330:. They were willed to Albright College, where they are held in the Special Collections, Gingrich Library. Besides the five volumes of poetry and other uncollected poetry, the papers yielded 22 plays, three novels, some short stories and articles, and numerous sketches. Vazakas also left packets of all the versions of many poems, the first one on the bottom and the final revision on the top. Following the death of Alex Vazakas, additional materials were discovered in a storage unit in the Highlands, Reading, PA, where Alex last resided.
852:, particularly.â In contrast to Wallace Stevens, Vazakas called his own poetry âpsychologic, graphic.â In a poem of his, he said, âJoe, the hatter,â would be an actual person, not a symbolic presence, and the subject of the poem would be âthe suffering or hardships of Joe.â In Joe and all his counterparts, down to societyâs seamiest outcasts, Vazakas expressed âthe personal experience of everyman, in an appropriate form. In that respect,â he said, his poems âhave something to say.â
665:, he called him âthat important phenomenon among writers, an inventorâ because of his approach to the poetic line. Williams characterized Vazakas as âgentle-vitriolic, kind-inhuman, forgiving-obdurate, a poet whose urbanity is inviolate.â He observed that âVazakas doesnât select his material. . . . It is. Like the newspaper that takes things as it finds them,--mutilated and deformed, but drops what it finds as it was, unchanged in all its deformity and mutilation. . . .â
149:, to be near members of her family. Donald went to live with relatives while Margaret Vazakas earned a living clerking in local department stores. Byron and Alex attended St. Maryâs Parochial School. Although he served as an altar boy, Byron rebelled against the schoolâs strict discipline and dropped out after the eighth grade. He never returned to a formal school. From an early age, however, Byron read avidly and showed an interest in writing.
210:. Williams became enthusiastic about a stanzaic technique in Vazakasâ poetry that he considered innovative. He helped Vazakas find a publisher for his first book, and wrote the introduction for the volume, which appeared in 1946. All 50 of the pieces had previously been published in 15 periodicals, including "New Mexico Quarterly Review" and "Poetry." In 1947 Vazakas was nominated for a
156:, to live with his widowed grandmother. Byron continued to live with his mother at various locations near City Park until her death in December 1940. At first, Byron worked in a clothing store and later collected rents for the Reading Company. After he left that job, out of boredom and frustration, his family never pressured him to seek employment, even during the
308:(1970). Five additional typescript volumes, each containing 50 poems, as did his four published books, remained ready for a publisher that Vazakas never succeeded in finding. For many years he tried unsuccessfully to earn grants and fellowships and suffered frustration at the lack of recognition. He was, however, honored in Reading as its unofficial
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frequent occurrence of âscenes, settings, and characters.â Vazakas enhances the dramatic presentation by writing customarily in the present tense, thus inviting the reader into the state of mind the poem presents. He employs past tense in descriptions of action extending over a while or in reminiscences about his childhood.
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The power of description is one of the immediately appealing features of the poetry. The early poems are full of condensed, fused images, a legacy from T. S. Eliot and the
Imagists. The later poems rely less heavily on succinct clusters of images, but the quality of the images is consistently high.
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Vazakas described his poetry as âorganic poetryâ that derives from âthe association between the artistâs life and his work,â so that poetry serves as âan extension of the personality.â He reinforced this statement by maintaining that âUnhappily, the connection between my life and my work will
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From 1936 to 1942, Vazakasâ prose writing appeared in the "Reading Times" and the "Historical Review of Berks County." Although he never publicly claimed authorship, evidence is clear from a newspaper report that
Vazakas wrote a 16-page pamphlet, "The Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading,
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Vazakas was proud to be characterized as a poet who demonstrated a âmoral fervorâ in his approach to life. He was a humanist who emphasized the importance of free will in the search for truth and goodness. To him, morality was âthe ethical treatment of others.â He abhorred the deliberate loss of
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From the start, Vazakas identified himself with the image of an outsider, a young man painfully and ironically aware of a romantic isolation as he argues with the world. He wanders alone in rural or urban settings feeling variously fearful or angry, lonely or trapped. Then comes a surge of spirit
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Vazakas established himself as a writer in
Reading, but only a small number of people knew that he wrote poetry. These were the members of the Galleon Writersâ Guild, a group that produced 6 issues of a local literary magazine called "The Galleon: A Journal of Literary Achievement." Vazakasâ first
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and a fierce will to survive. He escapes in a number of ways: the pleasure of reliving the past, the love of a friend and the security of home, and the joy of music, art, and nature. A vacillation between the pessimistic and the optimistic approach creates an emotional counterpart in the poetry.
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Vazakas called his poetry âlyric, but essentially dramatic,â whether the format is a one- or two-page poem employing the short stanza that
William Carlos Williams called âthe toy cannonâ or a paragraph-length prose poem or a poem with longer, looser lines. The drama is evident, he said, in the
803:. Instead, he emphasized the value of âthe words themselvesâ in conveying âan attitude or aspect personally experienced and felt.â Three decades later Vazakas revised that first description. He said, âIt may sound like merely cadenced poetry, but most is pure iambic.â He explained that the
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Unadorned conversational statements help to create the âcasualnessâ Vazakas said he aimed to achieve. The poet often seems just to be talking, making ordinary comments. Playing against this idiom, however, are flashes of wit, sometimes in the form of colloquial wording or slang at unexpected
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Allusions to music and art abound in the poetry, in reflection of
Vazakasâ devotion to the arts. Everywhere he went, he said, he took with him the remembered sounds of music, and, apparently, the remembered images of art. Not surprisingly for a writer who called himself an expressionist, he
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life, whether from the death penalty or from military initiatives that forced young men to be candidates for an early death or to âkill without anger.â He approved of suicide if that was the only honorable course of action that enabled an individual to take control of his life.
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The language is customarily succinct. The word choice is sometimes âerudite, recondite, scholarlyâ; at other times âdown to earth.â Vazakas said he was âconstantly torn between the twoâ kinds of words. The more ordinary choices become dominant in the later poetry.
786:); people forced into violent situations against their will; and, eventually, the dregs of society. Vazakas observed people of the ânether worldâ only from a distance, but he lauded the rare individuals who serve down-and-out people without trying to reform them.
195:," published in 1942. As with his early poetry, Vazakas later omitted any reference to these extensively researched pieces of writing. More satisfying was the acceptance of individual poems he submitted to periodicals such as "American Poetry Journal."
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Vazakas died in
Reading Hospital on September 30, 1987, after a brief illness, a few days after his 82nd birthday. He is buried in Gethsemane Cemetery, Laureldale, PA. The tombstone, placed by Byronâs devoted brother Alex, reads âNight Transfigured.â
183:; Baziotes cultivated Vazakasâ tastes in art. The friendship endured for 15 years until the two drifted into different worlds. In later years, Vazakas credited Baziotes with being a formative influence on his artistic development.
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Understatement occurs frequently. This element establishes an air of studied, ironic nonchalance. The irony is often gentle, except when the subject matter concerns injustice or inhumanity. Then it becomes open and accusatory.
300:. He lived frugally in the house provided by his brother Alex. His days were spent roaming the derelict parts of Reading and writing poetry at a table in the Reading Public Library. He saw the publication of two more volumes,
675:, despite the connection to Reading, his birthplace, was only coolly cordial, though later he was reported to have described Vazakas as a âclever fellow.â At various times Vazakas enjoyed an association with other writers:
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In 1944 Vazakas described his poetry as âa kind of cadenced prose with the poetry in the content . . . rather than in the practice.â He abhorred the strictures imposed by rhyme, meter, and traditional âformsâ like the
312:. He gave numerous well-received readings, some as part of the Poetry in the Schools program given in high schools in Berks and surrounding counties. He was the subject of some local newspaper features. In May 1981
735:, and whatever he saw and reflected upon was grist for his poetic mill, whether it was in the Berks County countryside, the streets of Boston or London, or Paris, or the run-down sections of Reading or Philadelphia.
661:, who discovered Vazakasâ poetry at a crucial time in his career. He credited Vazakas with inventing a new stanzaic technique that he called âthe toy cannonâ and lavished him with praise. In the Introduction to
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Byron A. Vazakas was the son of Alfred
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650:, to destroy them, as he did, when Vazakas said he had found his true poetic voice. Only 22 early poems survive. Thus Byron Vazakas was able to emerge as a mature poet in his first volume,
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Albright College. 19 February 1976 and 9 March 1983. Taped by Manfred S. Zitzman. Vazakas Papers, Special Collections, Albright College.
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By 1935, Vazakas had written 1,500 poems imitating every style and rhyme scheme he had encountered. He regarded these as practice poems and asked his friend, Galleon editor
478:âThe German Element in Berks County, Past and Present.â Festbuch: Sechzehntes Sâaângerfest der Deutschen SâAngerverlinigung Von Pennsylvania. Reading, PA, 1940.
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Byron's two brothers, Alex and Donald passed away in 1996 and 2000. Donald's son, Tom currently resides in San Diego with his two children Ben and Saul Vazakas.
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145:, but within a few weeks, another disaster occurred. A fire destroyed the building and all their possessions. Margaret Vazakas then brought her family to
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Pennsylvania: Its History and Purpose," ca. 1941. Statements in its text also establish Vazakas as the author of a more ambitious work, "The History of
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134:. Tragedy struck during Christmas week 1912 when Alfred Vazakas died suddenly of pneumonia and the family was left destitute.
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Vazakas characterized his poetry by placing himself âmidway between the pure literary, intellectual, cerebral and a man like
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599:. Vazakasâ formal education ended with the eighth grade. After that, he was free to read whatever he liked. He absorbed
1237:---. Audiotaped interview of Alexander Vazakas. 12 January 1990. Vazakas Papers, Special Collections, Albright College.
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In December 1945, a high point for Vazakas while awaiting publication of "Transfigured Night" was a joint reading with
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during the years he called his happy âEdwardian childhood.â Both Byron and Alexander (Alex) attended a progressive
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241:. Vazakas continued writing poetry and having it published in an increasing number of periodicals including
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957:. New York: Washington Square Press, 1972. âThe Pavilion On The Pier,â âMidsummer Nightâs Dream,â 479-81.
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Moore, Marianne. Letters to Byron Vazakas. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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874:. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951. âAll The Farewells,â âThe Progress of Pholography,â 298-300.
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Sparks Afar: A Collection of Poems Selected from Kaleidograph, A National Magazine of Poetry, 1935
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867:. The Library of America, 2000. âThe Pavilion On The Pier,â âEpitaph For The Old Howard,â 533-4.
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Summer fellowships: Breadloaf, VT; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; McDowell, Peterborough, NH
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The Vazakas Papers, Special Collections, Gingrich Library, Albright College, Reading, PA.
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The Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania: Its History and Purpose
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responded warmly to Vazakasâ overtures and encouraged him from the start. In contrast,
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Douds, John B . âA New Reading Poet.â Rev. of Transfigured Night, by Byron Vazakas.
943:. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. âAn Evening At Home,â â Thunderstorm,â 388-90.
855:(Sources are identified in the work of Patricia H. Hummel listed in the bibliography.)
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Vazakasâ papers were organized by his literary executor, Professor Manfred Zitzman, of
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Walentis, Al. "Memories of MacLeish: Berks Poet was Part of Harvard's 'Godlen Age.'"
936:. Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1951. âSilent Film,â âT.B.,â Resurrection,â 53-60.
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265:. On four occasions he received fellowships to summer colonies at Breadloaf, VT;
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1269:"William Baziotes - Abstract Expressionist « Pollocksthebollocks's Weblog"
922:. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1946. âThe Glory,â âLiebestod,â 438-40.
1051:âHistory of Museum to be Published: Book to be Memorial to Dr. Levi Mengel.â
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171:, another young Reading man of Greek parentage who later achieved fame as an
888:. Baltimore: Contemporary Poetry, 1951. âAn Hour-Glass Of Seasons,â 11-12.
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in the YMHA Poetry Center in New York. The following year Vazakas moved to
915:. New York: The New American Library, 1953. âSkating At Versailles,â 184.
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Cavaliere, Barbara. âAn Introduction to the Method of William Baziotes.â
1121:, pub. By Friends of the Reading-Berks Public Libraries. January 1988: 3.
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Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur. âSaluting the Galleon Writersâ Guild: Part One.â
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414:, Albright College, Reading, PA. Listing appears in the intended order.
1357:"Epitaph for the Old Howard by Epitaph for the Old Howard Byron VazakaâŠ"
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Santamour, William C. âFriendship Helped Mold Careers of Artist, Poet.
950:. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1945. âHome For The Holidays,â 198-9.
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257:, and some anthologies. He gave occasional lectures and readings at
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Moyer, Richard C. âByron Vazakasâ Workshop Was the Public Library.â
895:. Baltimore: Contemporary Poetry, 1952.âThe Keys On The Table,â 18.
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Traveling Scholarship for 1962-63, renewed for 1963-64, and went to
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1166:"Reading's Bard: Byron Vazakas Found his Muse on City's Streets."
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Thomas, Heather. "Spartan Riches: Byron Vazakas' Poetic World."
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Paone, Carmen. âByron Vazakas fights the good fight for poets.â
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preferred the romantics in music and the impressionists in art.
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Williams, Oscar, ed. Rev. Second Edition by Hyman J. Sobiloff.
929:. New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1949. âSkyscraper,â 162-3.
881:. Baltimore: Contemporary Poetry, 1950. âNovember Lake,â 9-10.
484:. Reading, PA: Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, ca. 1941.
902:. Dallas: The Kaleidograph Press, 1936. âWinter 0Wind,â 145.
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101:, whose career extended from the modernist era well into the
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mode might be obscured by the lack of rhyme and the use of
1138:"Poet Byron Vazakas Spurns Ivory Tower for True Freedom."
607:, but his inclinations led him to the Symbolist poetry of
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Vazakas returned to spend the rest of his life quietly in
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Detroit: Gale, 2001. Literature Resources from Gale. Gale
1009:---. âPoet Vazakas . . . captive of his beloved city.â
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Uncollected poems in typescript, some marked "unfinished"
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Zissa, Robert F. âOne Reading Poet Tells of Another.â
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100 Poems selected with an introduction by Seldon Rodman
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Montgomery, Whitney, and Vaida Stewart Montgomery, eds.
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awarded him an honorary degree as Doctor of Humanities.
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by Byron Vazakas. New York: Macmillan, 1946: ix-xiv.
1152:"Poet Writes 'Organically,' Claims to Live Same Way."
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Alfred Vazakasâ brother Alexander, a professor at the
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McCoy, Kathy. "Byron Vazakas: The Poet for Reading."
1037:---. âSaluting the Galleon Writersâ Guild. Part II.â
707:. He developed a friendship with the young novelist
500:"Three Modern Old Masters: MooreâStevensâWilliams."
1093:---. âVazakas Drew Poetic Insight from Isolation.â
1072:Karanikas, Alexander. âGreek American Literature.â
988:"Byron Vazakas's Workshop was the Public Library."
218:, Vazakas said, âHe deserved it. But I did, too.â
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1079:Koehler, Ray. âEnd of The Galleonâs Epic Cruise.â
978:Vols. 25-28, Detroit: Gale Research, 1971. 754-55.
511:Centenary Edition Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1979: 5-7.
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1076:. New York: Modern Language Assoc., 1983: 65-89.
583:probably not be recognized except posthumously.â
509:This Month in Reading Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
946:Swallow, Alan, and Helen Ferguson Caukin, eds.
562:Poetry in the Schools Program, sponsored by the
1159:"Reading Poet, Byron A. Vazakas, Dead at 82."
1196:"Vazakas Drew Poetic Insight from Isolation."
1145:"Poet Vazakas...Captive of His Beloved City."
778:); people who stepped outside the moral code (
1318:. University of Massachusetts Press. p.
1107:Monde, Sue. "Vazakas Creates Poetical Mood."
1002:Cloutier, Dale. âPoet and Pupil Overture.â
967:"Breathe in Experience, Breathe out Poetry."
870:Friar, Kimon, and John Malcolm Brinnin, eds.
410:All are in typescript in the Vazakas Papers,
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1210:Williams, William Carlos. âIntroduction.â
981:"Byron Vazakas Analyzes Poetry for Pupils."
731:. He was a âwalking poetâ in the manner of
269:, NY; and McDowell, NH. His second volume,
934:American Sampler: A Selection of New Poetry
909:. U. of Illinois Press, 2002. âLorca,â 191.
1074:Ethnic Perspectives in American Literature
955:The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse
918:Quinn, Kerker, and Charles Shattuck, eds.
490:. Reading, PA: Reading Eagle Press, 1942.
488:History of the Reading Hospital: 1867-1942
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913:New World Writing. Third Mentor Selection
569:Honorary Degree as Doctor of Humanities,
175:painter. Vazakas introduced Baziotes to
1437:Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
1086:---. âOur âLord Byronâ Talks to Auden.â
557:Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
507:âWallace Stevens: An Anecdotal Memoir.â
360:. New York: Clarke & Way, Inc. 1961.
348:. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1946.
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464:"The Automobile Industry in Reading.â
631:. Along with reading, he listened to
386:Nostalgias for a House of Cards: Poems
152:In 1922 Byron and his family moved to
141:, moved the family to an apartment in
412:Special Collections, Gingrich Library
214:for the book. When the award went to
167:. A close friendship developed with
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1124:---. "Saluting Poet Byron Vazakas."
1023:"End of The Galleon's Epic Cruise."
1044:Halloran, Shirl. "Vazakas...Poet."
872:Modern Poetry: American and British
1455:Writers from Reading, Pennsylvania
932:Rosenberger, Francis Coleman, ed.
893:Contemporary Poetry: Volume Twelve
886:Contemporary Poetry: Volume Eleven
457:"Wallace Stevens: Reading Poet.â
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1065:---. âVazakas: An Evaluation.â
1018:Historical Review of Berks County
711:that lasted almost all his life.
473:Historical Review of Berks County
471:âThe Nolen Planning Commission.â
466:Historical Review of Berks County
459:Historical Review of Berks County
390:. New York: October House. 1970.
368:. New York: October House. 1966.
1062:. Unpublished dissertation 1993.
1060:Byron Vazakas: Poet of Outsiders
879:Contemporary Poetry: Volume Ten
564:National Endowment for the Arts
532:Hometown, The Visitors, The Key
306:Nostalgias For A House Of Cards
639:, who later gained fame as an
578:Description of Vazakas' Poetry
450:âOf Karl Schurz Exhibition.â
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623:. He was deeply affected by
493:âEleven Contemporary Poets.â
974:"Byron Vazakas, 1905-1987."
445:Published prose publications
1470:20th-century American poets
1256:Contemporary Authors Online
559:, 1962â63; renewed 1963-64
434:Intruder In The Painted Air
406:Unpublished books of poetry
366:The Marble Manifesto: Poems
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877:Miller, Mary Owings, ed.
742:, became an enduring one.
356:The Equal Tribunals: Poems
1200:, February 14, 1993, 114.
548:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
424:The Transient Of Evening
346:Transfigured Night: Poems
339:Published books of poetry
107:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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1310:Paul L. Mariani (1984).
1163:, October 1, 1987, 40-1.
1067:Berks Authors Collection
530:3 novels in typescript--
227:Cambridge, Massachusetts
105:period; nominee for the
1156:December 6, 1961, 1, 5.
1111:, February 18, 1972, 3.
907:The Wound and the Dream
782:); political radicals (
715:Vazakasâ subject matter
659:William Carlos Williams
454:, 5 September 1936: 11.
419:The Accordions Of Paris
208:William Carlos Williams
147:Lancaster, Pennsylvania
93:- September 30, 1987,
1378:March 8, 2009, at the
1229:Review of Berks County
1097:14 February 1993: 144.
1027:, January 22, 1977, 4.
794:The mode of the poetry
641:abstract expressionist
536:Miscellaneous sketches
527:22 plays in typescript
173:abstract expressionist
1170:, October 6, 1987, 4.
1142:, February 1979: 2-4.
1140:This Month in Reading
1135:13 September 1968: 3.
1058:Hummel, Patricia H.
1006:9 February 1972: 21+.
962:Selected bibliography
819:Other characteristics
768:Federico GarcĂa Lorca
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504:Winter 1952: 431-44.
497:Summer 1952: 213-229.
461:, July 1938: 111-113.
154:Reading, Pennsylvania
139:University of Chicago
120:Reading, Pennsylvania
95:Reading, Pennsylvania
89:(September 24, 1905,
70:Reading, Pennsylvania
1297:May 3, 2008, at the
1187:, May 1, 1983, 31-2.
1175:Reading Sunday Eagle
1149:May 19, 1970, 19-20.
1102:The Country Magazine
1090:18 October 1973: 20.
976:Contemporary Authors
648:Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
502:New Mexico Quarterly
495:New Mexico Quarterly
475:, October 1940: 5-8.
468:, April 1939: 66-74.
302:The Marble Manifesto
1231:Fall 1979: 130-32+.
1154:Brown Daily Herald,
1128:, March 1989, 14-5.
1083:22 January 1977: 4.
1013:18 May 1970: 19-20.
999:April 1977: 124-31.
939:Seaver, Edwin, ed.
727:and his boyhood in
429:The Alternate Dream
271:The Equal Tribunals
1344:Transfigured Night
1224:15 March 1979: 15.
1212:Transfigured Night
1177:24 April 1977: 95.
1048:, June 1974, 60-1.
992:, January 1988, 3.
905:Nelson, Cary, ed.
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