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Ezra Pound collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC096
  • Collection
  • 1908 - 1961

The collection consists firstly, of poetry manuscripts and proofs including "Personae", "Lustra", and "Canzoni and Ripostes"; secondly, a prose manuscript of "That Audience, or the Bugaboo of the Public"; and thirdly, of correspondence to Elkin Mathews (publisher), St. John Adcock, Harry and Caresse Crosby (Black Sun Press), Louis Zukofsky, The British Union of Fascists, T. S. Eliot, Montgomery Belgion, Michael Harald, Clifford Gessler, and others.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Kenneth Patchen collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC278
  • Collection
  • 1945

The collection consists of a hand-printed statement of Patchen's pacifistic beliefs, which served as a preface to the Waldport Pamphlet "An Astonished Eye Looks Out Of The Air" (1945).

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972

E. E. Cummings collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC029
  • Collection
  • 1950 - 1959

The collection consists of 3 typed, signed letters; a postcard; 5 Christmas cards; and a short note from Cummings. (tls to Peter Russell, the rest to Mrs. Ellen Stevenson). One of these letters relates to reprinting one of Cummings' articles. One Xmas card is a reproduction of a painting by E.E. Cummings (stamped on verso "Painting by E.E. Cummings").

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

Poetry (Chicago) collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC283
  • Collection
  • 1952

The collection consists of material relating to the fortieth anniversary issue of the magazine. Included are two copies of an advertising brochure; page proofs for the contents pages; and galley proofs of the poetry pages. Some of the poets included in the brochure do not have their work appear in the issue, others not in the brochure are added.

Poetry (Chicago)

Michael McClure collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC071
  • Collection
  • 1955 - 1971

The collection consists of correspondence with publishers Michael Horovitz (New Departures) and John Martin (Black Sparrow Press); holograph manuscript fragments consisting of "I Suspend My Wait" (1955) and "This Is The Cave Of The Void Of Our Senses" from "Dark Brown"(1961), plus a copy of "Dark Brown" with an enclosed hls to Robert Hawley (1966); and a corrected typescript of an application for a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1967.

McClure, Michael

Diane Di Prima collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC191
  • Collection
  • 1959

The collection consists of five typewritten leaves of poems, with the author's holograph corrections. Each of the poems also has the author's autograph.

Di Prima, Diane

Frank O'Hara collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC088
  • Collection
  • ca. 1960-1964

The collection consists of holograph corrections and typescript of "Love's Labor, an eclogue" and a typescript of "The General's Return From One Place To Another".

O'Hara, Frank

Stony Brook Poetics Foundation collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC308
  • Collection
  • 1961 - 1968

The collection consists of a black portfolio containing seven cardboard sheets with holograph poems, all signed and numbered [#3 of 10 copies]. Included are: "fragment of Passages (33)" by Robert Duncan; "Dreams" by Jim Harrison; "Swan That Sings And" by Denise Levertov ; "The Connoisseur of Jews" by Jerome Rothenberg; "Poem" by Charles Simic; "Yen Yu" by Louis Simpson; and "To Do" by John Wieners. Also included is a typed letter on poetry (Jan. 1961) by Denise Levertov and a printed prospectus (Oyez) for "The Years As Catches" by Robert Duncan, which contains contributions from Denise Levertov "On Reading the Early Poems of Robert Duncan" and Charles Olson (untitled). Signed holographs issued by the Stony Brook Poetics Foundation in support of its publication program, probably during the Stony Brook Poetry Conference, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1968.

Stony Brook Poetics Foundation

Allen Ginsberg collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC213
  • Collection
  • 1966

The collection consists of a handwritten postcard to Ted Berrigan.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

Langston Hughes collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC232
  • Collection
  • 1966 - 1967

The collection consists of two poems copied on separate leaves: "Prayer," a holograph poem "copied especially for Marshall Bean", signed and dated "New York, March 18, 1966", and a typescript copy of "Florida Road Workers" with the holograph inscription: "For Mrs. Mark Smith--With my thanks for your very nice note. Sincerely, Langston Hughes, New York, April 28, 1967".

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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