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The Camel's Hump, No. 5
(Reno), (Morris), (1967). A poetry newsletter, devoted to individual poets. This issue has five poems by Brigham. Bess Miller Moore was from Mississippi, of Choctaw descent. She married Roy Brigham and took "besmilr brigham" as her nom de plume. She was recognized as an important woman poet in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing in numerous anthologies and publishing a couple of collections, and then she retreated from the public eye although she continued to write. Brigham died in 2000; in 2012 a literary award was established in her name to commemorate Besmilr Brigham as "a thoroughly independent and distinct American voice" and to champion the work of other women writers, especially those not living on the coasts of the U.S. -- Brigham lived in New Mexico and Arkansas most of her life. Four stapled pages, including the cover. Printed on rectos only. Folded in half and labeled for mailing (to Theodore Enslin). Edge-tanned, with one corner hole in the last leaf, not affecting any text; very good. Very uncommon. [#031468] SOLD

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