Number: magazine of modern poetry Nos 1-8 1950-1955 Rosalie Moore, Jeanne McGahey, Lawrence Hart &c ~Mills College ~Bay Area Poetry Movement

Title: Number: a magazine of modern poetry, Nos. 1-8 [Spring 1950 - Autumn 1955]

Author: Edited by Don Wobber and Robert Brotherson.
Contributors: Rosalie Moore, Jeanne McGahey, Lawrence Hart, Luis Monguio, Waltrina Furlong, Kenneth Pettitt, Marie Graybeal, Emily Pausch, Betty Turnoy, Marie Wells, Ted Wright, Nanying Stella Wong, Don Wobber, et al.

Description: Boards in vibrant blue cloth with title stamped in white on spine. Clean and unmarked. [280] pages.

A collected reprint of the first eight issues of Number, a poetry magazine out of Mills College in Oakland, California, published in the early 1950's, associated with the 'Activist' group of poets, who were a close-knit but little-known Bay Area poetry movement that began in 1936.

Includes pieces by Rosalie Moore (1948 Yale Younger Poet--chosen by Auden, and early friend of US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan), Jeanne McGahey, and Lawrence Hart, all of whom were members of the 'Activist' group of poets, to which the May 1951 and November 1958 issues of Poetry magazine were devoted. Other contributors include Luis Monguio, Robert Barlow, Waltrina Furlong, Kenneth Pettitt, Marie Graybeal, Emily Pausch, Betty Turnoy, Marie Wells, Ted Wright, Nanying Stella Wong, Don Wobber, and others, as well as a number of Mills College students.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: AMS Press
Place: New York
Year: 1970

Keywords: poetry, California, Mills College, Activist group, poets, 1950s, fifties, Bay Area,