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“Poetry is the food of the spirit, and spirit is the instigator of all revolutions, wether political or personal, wether national, worldwide, or within the life of a single quiet human being”. These words are attributed to Ruth Walgreen Stephan (1910–1974) who first visited Arizona in the 1930’s. Ruth Stephan was a distinguished novelist and poet who donated a collection of several hundred books, and a cottage, to the University of Arizona campus in 1960. This modest beginning belied the vision of Mrs Stephan, who continued to generously contribute to building a distinguished collection of poetry that would, in time, gain both national and international significance.
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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2014). University of Arizona Poetry Center. In: Eco-Library Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4078-5_13
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