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Summer Brenner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0617
Abstract

The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.

Dates: 1962-2005

Collection of uncorrected poetry proofs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0869
Abstract Originally compiled by bookseller Chloe's Books, this collection contains uncorrected proofs of poetry collections written by various authors between 1984 and 1998, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the author or editor. These advance proofs allowed authors to make corrections to the books before the final versions were printed and released. Publicity materials that were originally laid into the proofs, including newsletters, press releases, publishers’ letters to reviewers, and...
Dates: 1984-1998

Cleary outlined : page proofs

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0526
Abstract

The collection contains a set of page proofs (five pages) for Larry Eigner's poem "Clearly Outlined."

Dates: approximately 1964

Abbie Huston Evans letters to Odell Shepard

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0456
Abstract

Letters or cards addressed by poet Abbie Huston Evans to Pulitzer Prize winner Odell Shepard. Additionally, the collection has three poems written by Evans and a letter to Shepard from Jean Schiesser.

Dates: 1928-1966

Sir Joseph Gold literary manuscript collection

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Identifier: MSS 0658
Abstract

British attorney and author Sir Joseph Gold (1912-2000) was a collector of modern first editions of British and American writers and poets. The Sir Joseph Gold literary manuscript collection comprises correspondence, manuscripts, publishing files, and publications of mid-twentieth century British and American poets, publishers, and scholars.

Dates: 1904-1972; Majority of material found within 1949-1972

Richard Hoffman David Mamet collection

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Identifier: MSS 0496
Abstract

A collection of materials related to American playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, assembled by theater collector and book dealer Richard Hoffman.

Dates: 1975-2002

Alan Kaufman papers

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Identifier: MSS 0599
Abstract The papers of Alan Kaufman--an American Jewish author, editor, performer, artist, and impresario--include drafts of his memoir Jew Boy, his novel Matches, editorial material related to volumes in his Outlaw Bible series, and the magazine Davka: Jewish Cultural Revolution. There are numerous notebooks with notes, observations, lists, and drafts of poetry and writing, as well as original...
Dates: circa 19th century, 1952-2007; Majority of material found within 1952-2007

Larry Kearney papers

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Identifier: MSS 0808
Abstract Larry Kearney (born 1943) is an American poet and author who has published numerous poetry collections, prose, and nonfiction works. Kearney is associated with a circle of San Francisco poets and writers he befriended in the 1960s that included Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, and Richard Brautigan. The Larry Kearney papers comprise the author’s typescript and manuscript drafts of poems, playscripts, prose, and autobiographical works, both published and unpublished. The collection...
Dates: 1962-2012

Raymond Ellsworth Larsson letters, poems, and manuscripts

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0867
Abstract

American Catholic poet Raymond Larsson's letters to his friend James Gallagher include handwritten copies and a galley proof of his poems.

Dates: 1940-1953; Majority of material found within 1940-1941

Richard McCann papers

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Identifier: MSS 0616
Abstract The Richard McCann papers document the personal life and professional career of this American author, poet, and educator. The collection includes McCann's early creative writing; teaching materials; reviews, essays, and critical writing; personal and professional correspondence; and extensive drafts of McCann's poetry and fiction. McCann's fiction has autobiographical roots, often drawn from family relationships and personal experiences, as illustrated in photographs and family memorabilia...
Dates: 1920s-2008; Majority of material found within 1978-2005

Charles Plymell manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0457
Abstract

This collection of American writer Charles Plymell's manuscripts contains manuscripts for poems, fiction, and essays written by Plymell during the 1970s, as well as a small number of manuscripts of the work of other poets.

Dates: 1970-1979

Helen Ann Raiber papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0981
Abstract

Helen Ann Raiber (1926-1971) was a writer born and raised in Pennsylvania. Throughout her life, she wrote letters to writers and other artists whose work she admired. The Helen Ann Raiber papers consist of an album of letters she received from authors and artists, a journal with a story she wrote as a child, and a scrapbook containing her published poems and articles.

Dates: 1937-1970; Majority of material found within 1937-1943

Muriel Rukeyser letters to David Posner

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0833
Abstract

This small collection of letters and miscellaneous items from American poet Muriel Rukeyser to David Posner reflects their shared interests in poetry and spans the dates of 1942 to 1944.

Dates: 1942-1944

W. D. Snodgrass letters and manuscripts to Jerome Mazzaro

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Identifier: MSS 0273
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and literary manuscripts exchanged between twentieth century American poet and scholar W. D. Snodgrass and twentieth century American writer and scholar Jerome Mazzaro.

Dates: 1961-1977

Louis Untermeyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0111
Abstract

The Louis Untermeyer papers consist of five linear feet of manuscript material abandoned by Untermeyer when he sold his Adirondack home, Stony Water, around 1970. Dating from 1902 through 1972, with the bulk of the papers dating 1912–1935, the collection is composed of correspondence, proofs, lists, scrapbooks, notes, photographs, programs, announcements, lectures, anthologies, poems, reviews, essays, and a bookplate.

Dates: 1902-1972; Majority of material found within 1912-1935

Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection

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Identifier: MSS 0982
Abstract W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English and American poet, translator, librettist, playwright, and essayist. The Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection comprises Wilson’s collected materials created by and related to W. H. Auden. The collection includes manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, and published versions of Auden’s poetry, translations, prose, and dramatic works; programs and promotional ephemera for Auden’s readings and events as well as other performances related to the...
Dates: circa 1930-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

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Berlin, Lucia 1
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Cassian, Nina 1
Chester, Laura 1
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Chloe's Books (Firm) 1
Clark, Tom, 1941-2018 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
Crumb, R. 1
Crumb, R.--Correspondence 1
Digges, Deborah 1
Dorfman, Ariel 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Duerden, Richard 1
Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 1
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 1
Erdmann, Jack 1
Evans, Abbie Huston 1
Frym, Gloria 1
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Gold, Joseph, 1912- 1
Gregor, Arthur, 1923- 1
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Hirschman, Jack, 1933- 1
Hoffman, Richard Lee 1
Hollins College 1
Horovitz, Michael, 1935- 1
Howe, Marie, 1950- 1
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 1
Jaffe, Rhoda, 1923-1967 1
Kallman, Chester, 1921-1975 1
Kaufman, Alan 1
Kaufman, Alan. Jew Boy 1
Kaufman, Alan. Matches 1
Kaufman, Alan. The Outlaw Bible of American Essays 1
Kaufman, Alan. The Outlaw Bible of American Literature 1
Kaufman, Alan. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry 1
Kearney, Larry, 1943- 1
Kevorkian, Karen 1
Kolm, Ron 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- --Correspondence 1
Kupferberg, Tuli 1
Kyger, Joanne 1
Larsson, Raymond Ellsworth, 1901-1991 1
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Logan, William, 1950 November 16- 1
MacBeth, George 1
MacSweeney, Barry 1
Maud, Ralph 1
Mazzaro, Jerome 1
Mazzaro, Jerome--Correspondence 1
McCann, Richard 1
McCann, Richard--Archives 1
Micheline, Jack, 1929-1998 1
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 1
Moraes, Dom, 1938-2004 1
Muske-Dukes, Carol, 1945- 1
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre 1
Osborne, Charles 1
Piercy, Marge 1
Plymell, Charles 1
Poetry Book Society 1
Poets Press (New York, N.Y.) 1
Pommy-Vega, Janine 1
Ponsot, Marie 1
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 1
Pound, Omar S. 1
Raiber, Helen Ann, 1926-1971 1
Ritsos, Giannēs, 1909-1990 1
Rodefer, Stephen 1
Rodefer, Stephen--Correspondence 1
Rosset, Barney 1
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 1
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980--Correspondence 1
Russell, Peter, 1921-2003 1
Rutsala, Vern 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sandy, Stephen 1
Scalapino, Leslie 1
Schiesser, Jean 1
Seidel, Frederick, 1936- 1
Shepard, Odell, 1884-1967 1
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