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Persephone is still looking for Keith’s missing archival materials in Longmont: Update 29 September 2024
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/ MysteryRead More →: Persephone is still looking for Keith’s missing archival materials in Longmont: Update 29 September 2024From Tacoma to Longmont to Albuquerque – Persephone Abbott is visiting with family and friends.
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Keith Kumasen Abbott Reads of Tales of Oakland and Cocaine
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Read More →: Keith Kumasen Abbott Reads of Tales of Oakland and CocaineKeith Kumasen Abbott reads an excerpt from the novel: “This Music Can Be Heard in Your Area Only”. This fantastic story from the (missing) novel is a reference to Keith’s experiences in the mid 1980’s with his friend, the poet John Veglia (aka Nestor Marzipan). Graphic novelist Mimi Pond produced two books ‘Over Easy” and…
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What is Eldon and Terry Mast’s Tribute to Longmont Poet & Author & Artist Keith Kumasen Abbott?
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/ MysteryRead More →: What is Eldon and Terry Mast’s Tribute to Longmont Poet & Author & Artist Keith Kumasen Abbott?What happened to poet/author/artist Keith Kumasen Abbott’s notebooks/journals and manuscripts? They are not at the archives of the University of Western Washington at Bellingham.
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Mordecai of Monterey re-released
Read More →: Mordecai of Monterey re-releasedIn August 2024 Mordecai of Monterey was re-released and is available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon. Mordecai of Monterey is a comic novel set in 1973, during the height of the Watergate scandale. From the landscape that inspired Cannery Row, the hero Mordecai discovers that he has been gifted with melanoia – the opposite of paranoia.…
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A Package from Keith’s Friend Tim Hildebrand
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Read More →: A Package from Keith’s Friend Tim HildebrandIt is a very kind gesture and I appreciate it. Author and photographer Tim Hildebrand sent package of my father’s materials, books and photos, and even a copy of his own book, Rotwang. I am looking forward to reading it!
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Ease and Peace, A Poem
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/ PoemRead More →: Ease and Peace, A PoemAfter Keith’s mother came to visit, he wrote the following poem.
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A Poem: Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr.
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/ PoemRead More →: A Poem: Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr.This poem by Keith Kumasen Abbott appeared in Erase Words and is read by Persephone Abbott. The video is a view of the back of X-Cel Feeds Inc in Tacoma which was founded by Leonard Elwood Abbott Sr and business associates in 1965. Leonard Sr died in 1967.
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What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?
Read More →: What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?It’s coming up to the fifth year anniversary of Keith Kumasen Abbott’s death. In honor of my father I have re-released his comic novel Mordecai of Monterey. Working with a friend, the new cover is a reflection of the original cover. Water was a significant theme in my father’s later art work. His ashes were…