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Mitsuhashi Takajo

Mitsuhashi Takajo was born on January 24, 1899, near Narita, a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She began by writing tanka, but when she married Kenzo, a dentist who wrote haiku in 1922, she switched

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Aged person, The

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What San Francisco poet and publisher echoed Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to Whitman when he wrote to Allen Ginsberg asking to publish "Howl"?

Answer

Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Ferlinghetti wrote, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?" Emerson had written to Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start."

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