Cowboy of the Ancient Sea

Two beautiful elegies about the poet's father, Fred Plymell, who was a prohibition-era bootlegger, cowboy, rancher, merchant marine, and inventor.

Author: Charles Plymell
Publisher: Bottle of Smoke Press
Published: 03/16/2018
Pages: 34
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d
ISBN13: 9781937073718
ISBN10: 1937073718
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
is a poet, novelist, and small press publisher. Plymell has been published widely, collaborated with, and published many poets, writers, and artists, including principals of the Beat Generation. He has published, printed, and designed many underground magazines and books with his wife Pamela Beach, a namesake in avant-garde publishing. He published former prisoner Ray Bremser and Herbert Huncke, whom he identified with from the hipster 1950s. He was influential in the underground comix scene, first printing Zap Comix artists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson, whom he first published in Lawrence, Kansas. Plymell received a citation for being a distinguished poet by Governor Joan Finney of Kansas and was cited in the 1976 World Book Encyclopedia as a most promising poet.

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