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Alfred Kreymborg , 1883-1966, American poet and anthologist, b. New York City. Originally one of the imagists , he wrote poems collected in Mushrooms (1916), Manhattan Men (1929), Selected Poems (1945), and Man and Shadow (1946). He chronicled American poetry in such works as the critical history Our Singing Strength (1929, 1934) and the anthology Lyric America (1930). His puppet plays were also popular.

Bibliography: See his autobiography, Troubadour (1925).

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Kreymborg, Alfred

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Kreymborg, Alfred (1883–1966), New York City poet and playwright, whose first collection, Mushrooms (1916), was an attempt to achieve direct simplicity in poetry. He next turned to poetic drama, writing Plays for Poem‐Mimes (1918), Plays for Merry Andrews (1920), and Puppet Plays (1923), many of which were first presented by the Provincetown Players. Less Lonely (1923) shows the juxtaposition of personal themes and conventional verse forms. He continued to experiment with the sonnet form in The Lost Sail (1928), while Manhattan Men (1929) represents a midway point between his early experimentation and his later more conventional poetry published in Prologue in Hell (1930), The Little World (1932), and No More War (1950). His Selected Poems was published in 1945. Our Singing Strength (1929) is a history of American poetry, complemented by Lyric America (1930), an anthology. Troubadour (1925) is the autobiography of his youth on the Lower East Side and his later life in Greenwich Village and elsewhere, during part of which time he was a contributor to little magazines, including Others and Broom. His other books include the novels Erna Vitek (1914) and I'm No Hero (1933) and a book for children, Funnybone Alley (1927). He was active in the Federal Theatre and in radio drama, writing for the latter medium such plays as The Planets (1938), a modern pacifist allegory.

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American Caravan

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American Caravan (1927–36), yearbook founded by Paul Rosenfeld, Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Van Wyck Brooks, was edited by the first three as “an affirmation of the health of the young American literature, and an earnest of a guild for the co‐operative publication of its works.” It underwent some changes of title, but the purpose remained the same despite lapses in publication. Contributors included Hemingway, Dos Passos, O'Neill, and Gertrude Stein.

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