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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…
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Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?
Read More →: Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?In Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel Mordecai of Monterey a character by the name of the Widow Lazarchuk is presented. Knowing that Keith often inserted his friends into his novels, I looked up the name Lazarchuk and came to the conclusion that the Widow Lazarchuk was a bit of a “wink” towards the punk rock…
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YOU WERE
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/ PoemRead More →: YOU WEREThis poem by Keith was written in August 1967, a few months after the death of his own father who died a week after Keith’s daughter Persephone was born.
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Who was Mordecai?
Read More →: Who was Mordecai?Who was the role model for Mordecai of Monterey? None other than Michael Sowl, the poet! And just how was it possible edit and prepare Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel for (re)publication?
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Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?
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/ MysteryRead More →: Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?What’s missing in the archives? My father’s records of his friendships. Why? Because my mother may have edited the archives. My father should be allowed to speak for himself and I encourage the person or persons who have these missing materials to send them to the archives at the University of Western Washington at Bellingham.…