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114. Duke, Jas H., 1939-1992.

Archduke : special Atlantis issue [manuscript] / Jas. H. Duke. (Melbourne : Jas. H. Duke, [1973?])

Archduke : special Atlantis issue [manuscript]

Jas Duke was essentially a performance poet. He was born in Ballarat but left Australia in 1966 to live in the US and the UK until he returned to Melbourne in 1972. Duke was a draftsman with the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. This self-produced work is done in various coloured pens on MMBW blue-print paper. It is accompanied by a letter to Melbourne avant-garde film-makers, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. The letter was meant to introduce himself to them and ends,

By the way I am totally bald. Does that worry you? It seems to worry a lot of people for some reason, LOVE.

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