Interview with Gray Zeitz, July 14, 2014
Project: Kentucky Writers: Kentucky Writers On The Land Oral History Project
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Gray Zeitz, founder and publisher of Larkspur Press, discusses his work as a letterpress printer and poet. He begins with his boyhood in Mobile, Alabama, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky, discussing his education and early interest in books; then his years at Elizabethtown's community college and at the University of Kentucky; then his move to Monterey, Kentucky where he established Larkspur and raised his family.Interview Accession
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Carolyn Hammer Civil rights movement Environmental movement Farming Guy Davenport Jean Zeitz Jonathan Greene Kentucky literature Larkspur Press Letterpress Nancy Bittner Printing Richard Taylor Rural life Thomas Merton Victor Hammer Zen Buddhism University of Kentucky Education, Higher Mobile (Ala.) Elizabethtown (Ky). Berry, Wendell, 1934- Agrarians (Group of writers) Southern writersInterview Rights
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Zeitz, Gray Interview by Arwen Donahue. 14 Jul. 2014. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Zeitz, G. (2014, July 14). Interview by A. Donahue. Kentucky Writers: Kentucky Writers On The Land Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Zeitz, Gray, interview by Arwen Donahue. July 14, 2014, Kentucky Writers: Kentucky Writers On The Land Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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