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Harry Smith : Fragments of a Northwest Life
Harry Smith Fragments of a Northwest Life Author:Darrin Daniel What we read here is a sifting of fact and imagination from what Harry Smith has told us about his boyhood in the Pacific Northwest. Harry Smith's contributions in music and film are evident with his Anthology of American Folk Music and inspired abstract films, but what we find here is the beginning seeds of this eccentric genius. There are... more » few traces left of the young Smith and Darrin Daniel has made some sense of those years 1928 through 1949—from Harry claiming to be fathered by Aleister Crowley, to documenting what little is known of his parents and grandparents—to his earliest anthropological recordings, donated with artifacts and notebooks to the University of Washington. Out of all the speculation, mythology and plain curiosity, the packet named Harry Everett Smith begins to reveal itself. This is the third book on Smith since his 1991 death. Anyone curious to know the magus Harry Smith will want this book on their shelf.« less