Alfred Kreymborg — a remark

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“An editor's primary duty to his contributors is to print them without making them pay for the privilege.”

Affirming the practical principle behind founding the avant-garde literary magazine Others · Troubadour: An Autobiography

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Alfred Kreymborg

10 December 1883–14 August 1966

In the early decades of the twentieth century, when American poetry was struggling to break free from the strictures of Victorian convention, a slight, chess-obsessed son of German immigrants emerged as one of the most influential figures in literary modernism. Alfred Kreymborg, born on December 10, 1883, in New York…

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