Will Dockery wrote:

> General-Zod wrote:

>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> Harry Kemp (American poet)

>>> Poems
>>> "[http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1326.html Blind]"
>>> *[http://www.poemhunter.com/harry-kemp/ Harry Kemp] at [[PoemHunter]] (36
>>> poems)
>>> *[http://allpoetry.com/Harry-Kemp Harry Kemp] at AllPoetry (38 poems)

>>> Books
>>> * {{Gutenberg author |id=Kemp,+Harry | name=Harry Kemp}}

>>> About
>>> *[http://www.eoneill.com/library/newsletter/iv_1-2/iv-1-2f.htm Harry Kemp:
>>> Lest we forget], ''The Eugene O'Neill newsletter''
>>> *[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570273?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents review
>>> of ''The Cry of Youth]'' in ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]]''

>>> Wiki Biography:
>>> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Kemp

>>> This article is about the 20th-century American poet. For the 20th-century
>>> English poet & teacher, see Harry Kemp (UK poet).

>>> Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 - August 5, 1960) was an American poet
>>> and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted
>>> himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet",
>>> or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his
>>> era.

>>> Kemp was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the only son of a candymaker. He was
>>> raised by his grandmother, in a house by the local train yards.

>>> At the age of 17 he left home to become a common seaman. After returning to
>>> the United States he traveled across the country by riding the rails as a
>>> hobo, carrying copies of Shakespeare, Shelley, and other poets in his
>>> rucksack.

>>> He later attended the University of Kansas, and while a student he began
>>> publishing verse in newspapers and magazines.

>>> Tramp poet
>>> Kemp had a knack for self-promotion, what he called "the Art of
>>> Spectacularism," and early learned to collaborate with and manipulate
>>> journalists to attract attention to his work. He spent time in Paris in the
>>> early 1920s, along with the more famous members of the Lost Generation.
>>> Among those influenced by, and working on the same path as Kemp were, in his
>>> autobiographical novel of Hobohemianism, W.H. Davies' The Autobiography of a
>>> Super-Tramp (1908), and the grim yet poetic realism of Maxim Gorky.

>>> Kemp spent much of his maturity traveling; he stayed in a number of planned
>>> communities for varying lengths of time, then wrote autobiographical novels
>>> about his experiences. When not traveling he was a regular denizen of
>>> Greenwich Village in New York City and Provincetown on Cape Cod in
>>> Massachusetts, where he was associated with the Provincetown Players.

>>> Kemp was also known as the "poet of the dunes." He lived on and off in a
>>> shack in the dunes of Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for a period of
>>> about 40 years, and he died there in 1960. A 1934 Kemp poem, "The Last
>>> Return," was written for the Coast Guard men who steadfastly worked to save
>>> the lives of those shipwrecked on Cape Cod's coast.

>>> Kemp's Tramping on Life: An autobiographical narrative (1922) was one of the
>>> best selling "tramp autobiographies" of the 1900–1939 period.

>>> Kemp knew many of the bohemian and progressive literary and cultural figures
>>> of his generation, including Elbert Hubbard, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell,
>>> Bernarr MacFadden, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund
>>> Wilson, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and many others. Kemp played a role
>>> in the first stage production of O'Neill's earliest play, Bound East for
>>> Cardiff. Kemp was physically imposing, "Tall, broad-shouldered, and robust,"
>>> Wetzsteon, p. 334. and gained a reputation as a lover, sometimes of other
>>> men's wives; he was involved in various scandals throughout his career. His
>>> part in Upton Sinclair's divorce was especially notorious in its day.

>>> As a means of kidding Harry Kemp, George Nathan and I pretended to a vast
>>> interest in Greenwich Village, and one day asked him to take us there and
>>> show us the sights. He accepted eagerly, and we walked all the way from 331
>>> Fourth Avenue. Whenever he pointed out a celebrity... we would stop short,
>>> stare fixedly, and make a show of being tremendously impressed. Finally,
>>> almost with bated breath, Kemp indicated a second-story window in a
>>> ramshackle house, and said: "When Oscar Wilde was in New York his girl lived
>>> there." "His girl?" demanded Nathan. "What in hell, Mr. Kemp, was Mr. Wilde
>>> doing with a *girl*?" For some reason unknown, this greatly upset Kemp, and
>>> he spent half an hour trying to convince Nathan and me that, in addition to
>>> his homosexual practice, Wilde also indulged in more normal sin. We
>>> professed to regard it as a slander upon his principles, and denounced Kemp
>>> for spreading such stories about a dead and defenseless man. He then got
>>> into a considerable lather and proposed to produce the woman, but we begged
>>> him to say no more about a painful subject.

>>> Later Years
>>> In addition to his original books, Kemp translated a play by Tirso de Molina
>>> as The Love-Rogue (1923), and edited The Bronze Treasury (1927), "an
>>> anthology of 81 obscure English poets." Kemp's views turned somewhat more
>>> conservative with age; he rejected leftist and anarchist sympathies and
>>> wrote approvingly of Jesus Christ as the "divine hobo" and the "Super
>>> Tramp."

>>> The hobo poet Harry Kemp hailed Jesus Christ as the "super-tramp" and
>>> "divine hobo" for the man Jesus preached a social gospel, and consorted with
>>> outcasts and criminals. It wasn't Jesus' fault if the chuches that claimed
>>> him had grown repressive and corrupt. He had stood for voluntary poverty,
>>> not self-satisfied greed. He had stood for justice and identified with the
>>> downtrodden, saying that what you do the least of God's creatures, you do to
>>> me.

>>> Writing
>>> According to Louis Untermeyer (editor of Modern American Poetry), Kemp's
>>> early collections (The Cry of Youth and The Passing God) are "full of every
>>> kind of poetry except the kind one might imagine Kemp would write. Instead
>>> of crude and boisterous verse, here is precise and over-polished poetry."
>>> Untermeyer's opinion was that Chanteys and Ballads is "riper," with "the
>>> sense of personality more pronounced."<ref?Louis Untermeyer, ed., Modern
>>> American Poetry, Fourth Revised Edition, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co.,
>>> 1930; p. 376. Print.</ref>

>>> Recognition
>>> Kemp's reputation had declined into obscurity by the time of his death in
>>> 1960; but his role in the history of modern American literature and the
>>> American Left has brought renewed interest and further publication of his
>>> work.

>>> There is a street named for him, Harry Kemp Way, in Provincetown.

>>> In 1995, the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce made plans to create a First
>>> Landing Park to commemorate the Pilgrims' voyage in 1620. Ms. Ruth Hiebert
>>> made a donation in the name of her late father, Dr. Daniel Hieber, who,
>>> along with Harry Kemp, the celebrated "Tramp Poet" of the 1920s literary
>>> world who abandoned Greenwich Village for life in a Provincetown dune shack,
>>> would reenact the first landing every year, complete with dubious costumes
>>> Kemp imagined the intrepid voyagers might have worn."It was all somewhat
>>> silly, but it did keep the true history alive," Ms. Hiebert told the Globe.

>>> Publications
>>> The Cry of Youth. New York: Kennerley, 1914.
>>> The Thresher's Wife. New York: A. & C. Boni, 1914.
>>> The Passing God: Songs for lovers (with introduction by Richard Le
>>> Gallienne). New York: Brentano's, 1919; London: Brentano's, 1922.
>>> Chanteys and Ballads: Sea-chanteys, tramp-ballads, and other ballads and
>>> poems. New York: Brentano's, 1920.
>>> The Sea and the Dunes, and other poems. New York: Brentano's, 1926.
>>> Don Juan's Note-Book. New York: privately published; printed by Alex L.
>>> Hillman, 1929.
>>> Where Now Green Gardens? Harry answers Omar. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown
>>> Publishers, 1945.
>>> The Poet's Life of Christ: Songs of the living Lord. Provincetown, MA:
>>> Provincetown Publishers, 1946.
>>> Provincetown Tideways (1948)
>>> Poet of the Dunes: Songs of the dunes and the outer shore, with others in
>>> varying modes and moods. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Publishers, 1952;
>>> Provincetown, MA: Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, 1988.
>>> Rhyme of Provincetown Nicknames. Providence, MA: Providence Publishers,
>>> 1954.

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>>> Found in Drafts file.

>> Again... Kemp is quite fantastic....!

> Good evening, agreed.

GOOD DAY to you....!