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Box 3

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Journals and periodicals, [1961]-1985

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F13
Scope and Contents

Copies of journals and periodicals in which John Wieners's work appears.

Dates: [1961]-1985

Correspondence, 1962-1965

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F14
Scope and Contents

Majority of correspondence is from Wieners to Robert Wilson. Other correspondents include LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Alan Marlowe, and Marshall Clements.

Dates: 1962-1965

Correspondence, 1967-1988

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F15
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Wieners to Wilson. Also includes an undated note in Wieners's hand which appears to be a grocery list.

Dates: 1967-1988

Reviews and critical writings, 1965, 1982 and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F16
Scope and Contents

Includes a review of Ace of Pentacles by Denise Levertov, a review of Behind the State Capitol by Charles Shively and what appears to be Raymond Foye's entry on Wieners for the special Beats volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography , The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (1983).

Dates: 1965, 1982 and undated

Fliers and advertisements, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F17
Scope and Contents

Fliers for Wieners's New York readings and publishers' advertisements; includes a postcard announcing publication of Wieners's The Hotel Wentley Poems with penciled notes in Wieners's hand, the verso of which bears Wieners's inscription of "The Rose of Peace" by W.B. Yeats.

Dates: undated

"Autumn in New York" sheet music, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F18
Scope and Contents

Sheet music of "Autumn in New York" by Vernon Duke. Inscribed by Wieners: "To Bob Wilson from John"; sent to Wilson from Wieners as a suggested title for the volume that became Ace of Pentacles .

Dates: undated

Photographs, 1965, circa 1982 and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: F19
Scope and Contents

Eight photographs, mostly of the author. Locations include the Phoenix Bookshop and Spoleto, Italy. Also included is one photograph of actress Greta Garbo, on which Wieners has inscribed: "Can we use this as a picture of the author?"

Dates: 1965, circa 1982 and undated