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author’s typescript and manuscript drafts of poems, playscripts, prose, and autobiographical works, both published and unpublished.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