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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

John Wieners publisher's files for The Hotel Wentley Poems

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0626
Abstract

John Wieners publisher's files for The Hotel Wentley Poems consists of .3 linear feet of materials comprising manuscripts, proofs, artwork, page layouts, and correspondence created and revised by American poet John Wieners (1934-2002), publisher David Haselwood, and artist Robert Lavigne (1928-) relating to the publication of Wieners’s The Hotel Wentley Poems: Original Version (1965).

Dates: 1963-1971; Majority of material found in 1965

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

 Collection
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author’s typescript and manuscript drafts of poems, playscripts, prose, and autobiographical works, both published and unpublished.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

Salmon Poetry Ltd. records supplement

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Identifier: MSS 0438s
Abstract

The Salmon Poetry Ltd. records supplement contains administrative files and the press's publishing files for books produced between 2000 and 2011. Founded and directed by the American-Irish poet, Jessie Lendennie, Salmon Poetry Ltd. is noted particularly for its publication of poetry and its promotion of women writers. This supplement complements the core archival records of Salmon Publishing, Ltd., which was acquired by the University of Delaware Library in 1998.

Dates: 1996-2011; Majority of material found within 2000-2011

Salmon Publishing, Ltd. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0438
Abstract

The records of Salmon Publishing cover the activity of Salmon Publishing Ltd. of Clare, Ireland, from its inception in 1982 through 1997. Founded and directed by the American-Irish poet, Jessie Lendennie, Salmon Publishing is noted particularly for its promotion of the work of new women poets.

Dates: 1982-2000

Sydney Goodsir Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0226
Abstract The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers date primarily from the late 1950s and early 1960s, an especially nationalist phase in Smith’s literary career. The collection contains several drafts and advance proofs of Smith’s play The Wallace and manuscripts of his long dramatic poems, Gowdsmith in Reekie and The Vision of the Prodigal Son. Also present are seventeen pieces of correspondence and the manuscripts of about...
Dates: 1954-1960

Sombre Reptiles Press records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0560
Abstract

The Berkeley, California-based Sombre Reptiles Press was founded in 1978 by poet Jerry Ratch and artist Mary Ann Hayden. This small collection consists of approximately one linear foot of material related to the operation of the press and the publication of its works, spanning the dates 1977 and 1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1977 to 1982.

Dates: 1977-1994; Majority of material found within 1978-1982

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

Geoffrey Wakeman Plough Press collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0554
Abstract

The Geoffrey Wakeman Plough Press collection consists of the records of the Plough Press and the works and research materials of the Plough Press's founder, English printer and author Geoffrey Wakeman. The Plough Press's publications, reprints, and original works by Wakeman and others pertain to print culture, particularly printers and printing, illustration processes, binding, and paper.

Dates: 1655-1996; Majority of material found within 1970-1993

Lewis Warsh collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0547
Abstract

The Lewis Warsh collection is a small collection of materials relating to publishing projects by American poet, novelist, and editor Lewis Warsh and by American authors Steve Carey, Ted Berrigan, and Tom Savage produced by Warsh's Angel Hair Books and United Artists Books. The collection spans the dates between 1968 and 2001 and consists of material at various stages of the publication process, including mock-ups, advanced uncorrected proofs, uncorrected galley proofs, and cover art.

Dates: 1968-2001

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

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Berlin, Lucia 2
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 2
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Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Algarín, Miguel 1
Angel Hair Books (New York, N.Y.) 1
Auerhahn Press 1
Berkson, Bill 1
Berrigan, Ted 1
Bly, Robert 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
Carey, Steve, 1945-1989 1
Cassian, Nina 1
Chloe's Books (Firm) 1
Clark, Tom, 1941-2018 1
Cranium Press 1
Cushman, Don 1
Dave Haselwood Books 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Digges, Deborah 1
Docker, Frances 1
Dorfman, Ariel 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Duerden, Richard 1
Erdmann, Jack 1
Estrin, Jerry 1
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Gray, Darrell, 1945- 1
Gregor, Arthur, 1923- 1
Haselwood, David 1
Hayden, Mary Ann 1
Hermes Free Press 1
Hirschman, Jack, 1933- 1
Johnston, Alastair, 1950- 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
Kolm, Ron 1
Kupferberg, Tuli 1
LaVigne, Robert, 1928-2014 1
Logan, William, 1950 November 16- 1
London, Rick 1
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 1
Mamet, David 1
McBreen, Joan, 1947- 1
McClure, Michael 1
Micheline, Jack, 1929-1998 1
Muske-Dukes, Carol, 1945- 1
Myers, Michael, 1948-1982 1
Oak Knoll Press 1
Oppenheimer, Joel, 1930-1988 1
Piercy, Marge 1
Plough Press 1
Plough Press USA 1
Ponsot, Marie 1
Ratch, Jerry 1
Raworth, Tom 1
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 1
Ritsos, Giannēs, 1909-1990 1
Rosset, Barney 1
Rusk, Robert 1
Rutsala, Vern 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Sandy, Stephen 1
Savage, Tom, 1955- 1
Scalapino, Leslie 1
Seidel, Frederick, 1936- 1
Shot, Danny 1
Silverman, Herschel 1
Sky, Gino 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 1915-1975 1
Snyder, Gary, 1930- 1
Sombre Reptiles (Firm) 1
Spires, Elizabeth 1
Spring Creek Typesetting Service 1
Teter, Holbrook 1
Thorpe, John 1
Turtle Island Foundation 1
T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 1
United Artists Books 1
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 1
Van Duyn, Mona 1
Viereck, Peter, 1916-2006 1
Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943- 1
Wakeman, Frances 1
Wakeman, Geoffrey 1
Wakeman, Paul 1
Warsh, Lewis 1
Welch, Lew 1
Wieners, John, 1934-2002. The Hotel Wentley Poems 1
Wiley, William T., 1937- 1
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