Kenison, Gloria

Archive of Hand-Typed Poems in Envelope

n/p: n/p, n/d. Unpublished Manuscript. Single Sheets. Gloria Kenison (1910-1977) was a little-known poet in Massachusetts during the 1960s cultural revolution. Very little published work by Kenison can be found, but she has been featured in literary reviews such as Spectrum, The Green World, and The Wormwood Review [see our item no. 6911]. Issue number 23 of The Wormwood Review featured a 12-page spread of Kenison’s poems along with a “biography” and a list of publications up to that point. She graduated from Katharine Gibbs College, a secretarial college for young women in Providence, Rhode Island, and worked in Boston for most of her life. This is an unpublished cache of 40 poems compiled into a 20-page typewritten manuscript. Received from a relative of the poet who provided the following information: “Gloria was my mother’s first cousin. Gloria was an only child, [and] she had some kind of a mental problem of which I do not know. Of the 4 cousins, she was the smartest and the prettiest of them. She lived with her mother until her mother could no longer take care of herself. At that time, Gloria moved into a home of some sort which was in Mansfield, MA where she passed.” Single sheets in envelope: presumed first edition, first-&-only printing. At the top of first page is written “Gloria’s Poems” in handwritten script. In relatively very fine condition with mild age-toning to thin paper; mild bumping to the fine edges and corners of some pages. Very Fine. [Item #7789]

Price: $40.00