George HitchcockGeorge Hitchcock was born in Hood River, Oregon, in 1914. A playwright, poet, editor, painter, publisher, and labor activist, he founded and edited kayak, a poetry journal with an illustrious twenty-year run (1964-1984). Hitchcock was highlyactive in San Francisco's postwar literary and labor movements. His poetry collections--including The Piano Beneath the Skin, Cloud-Taxis, and Tactics of Survival--were published between 1962 and 2002. To both his personal craft and his work as a publisher, he brought a special eye for graphics and typography. From 1970 to 1989, he taught writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hitchcock died August 27th, 2010, in Eugene, Oregon. Read More Read Less
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