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In clear plastic cover, signed by author.

From Iowa University Press website:
Poetry FM is the first book to explore the dynamic relationship between post-1945 poetry and radio in the United States. Contrary to assumptions about the decline of literary radio production in the television age, the transformation of the broadcasting industry after World War II changed writers' engagement with radio in ways that impacted both the experimental development of FM radio and the oral, performative emphasis of postwar poetry.
Lisa Hollenbach traces the history of Pacifica Radio—founded in 1946, the nation's first listener-supported public radio network—through the 1970s: from the radical pacifists and poets who founded Pacifica after the war; to the San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and New York poets who helped define the countercultural sound of Pacifica stations KPFA and WBAI in the 1950s and 1960s; to the feminist poets and activists who seized Pacifica's frequencies in the 1970s. In the poems and recorded broadcasts of writers like Kenneth… Read More

A children's book illustrated by Mark C. Murray based on the original art of Lesley Rosenberg. In good condition for it's age. Has inscription from someone (NOT the author) on the inside, as it was given as a gift. Pages themselves are in near-fine condition with good color on illustrations.

Children's book, signed "to Jacqueline" by the author.

In this narrative history, David E. Lindsey gives the reader a ringside seat to a century of policies at the US Federal Reserve. Alternating between broad historical strokes and deep dives into the significance of monetary issues and developments, Lindsey offers a fascinating look into monetary policymaking from the Fed's inception in 1913 to today. In near-fine condition

Collection on stories about Chicago, signed by fourteen different authors; number 142 of 199.