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Paul Blackburn Provençal poets collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0536
Abstract
The Paul Blackburn Provençal poets collection documents the publication process of American poet Paul Blackburn's translations of and commentaries on Provençal poets in his first major translated work,Proensa(1953). The collection comprises 30 undated leaves of carbon typescripts and a copy of the 1953 Divers Press edition of the book.
Dates:
circa 1953
Michael von Uchtrup collection of Jonathan Williams correspondence and ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0752
Abstract
American poet and publisher Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), often associated with the Beat poets and the Black Mountain School, is known as a founder of The Jargon Society, a publishing firm that popularized the poetry of the post-World War II American avant-garde. The Michael von Uchtrup collection of Jonathan Williams correspondence and ephemera details the relationship that developed between Williams and von Uchtrup in the 1990s and provides insight into Williams’s publishing career,...
Dates:
1969-2003