Box 1
Contains 53 Results:
Postcard. Florence Williams, Rutherford, New Jersey to Robert Creeley, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1961 November 22
Writes to confirm that Creeley can use a William Carlos Williams quote, and mentions Williams' recent bad health.
Letters. Basil Bunting, Shadingfield, Wylam, Northumberland to Robert Creeley, Berkeley, California, 1965 June 29, July 11
Postmarked July 12. First (about 560 words) discusses a job proposal in San Francisco and Briggflatts. Second (about 850 words) discusses publicity interest in Bunting and imminent Bunting publications.
Christmas card. Basil Bunting n. p. to Robert Creeey n. p., 1965 December 25
Signed "Merry Christmas Bob, B." Poem titled "Ode II/2" with two four-line stanzas. Ornate design in red ink on cover flaps. Address of Fulcrum Press on back and "PRINTED BY GOLIARD PRESS."
Letter with enclosure. R. B. Kitaj, Berkeley, California to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1967 October 11
About 120 word ALS discussing travel plans. Pamphlet inscribed and signed on cover with a few corrections inside in Kitaj's hand. First page: "Excerpts from an after-dinner speech delivered at London and entitled: THIS MUSEUM SHOWS ALL KINDS OF SOCIAL AND SELF ABUSE YOUNG BOYS NEED IT SPECIAL." University of California, 1967. Accompanies an exhibition at the University Art Museum in Berkeley, California, October 7 to November 12, 1967. Postmarked manilla mailing envelope.
Letter with enclosures. George Butterick, Chambersbury, Pennsylvania to Robert Creeley n. p., 1968 September 5
Letter offers corrections to Creeley's introduction to Charles Olson's Selected Writings, and discusses the possibility of publishing Olson's best letters. Also seven-page photocopy of Butterick's "Olson Chronology." Also a photocopy of Butterick's "A Charles Olson Checklist," West Coast Review.
Letter with enclosures. Robert Grenier, Cambridge, Massachusettes to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1977 May 8
Postcard. Peter Quartermain, Vancouver, British Columbia to Robert and Penelope Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1978 November 18
Photocopied letter. Jeremy Prynne, Cambridge, England to Ed Dorn, n. p., 1981 February 22
An extended response to a Tom Clark piece. Prynne discusses Poetry Wars, and the tendency, especially with Whitman and then Pound, of U.S. poets to form teenage cults. Further discusses the British poetry scene, late capitalism, and a Chinese chronicle-novel he is reading.
Letter with enclosure. Robert Grenier n. p. to Robert Creeley n. p., 1986 February 25
These items were placed at pp. 4-5 of The Ampersand from April 1996 (see EPH 5009-85). Letter mentions Tom Raworth's "project" and discusses work life. Enclosed is a three-page photocopy of Grenier's "FOR TOM RAWORTH ALIVE / I SAW MY POEMS."
Letter with encolsures. Klaus Reichert, Frankfurt, Germany to Robert Creeley, Waldoboro, Maine, 1988 August 8
Writes after Creeley's recent visit. Mentions TV and radio interviews with Creeley, and discusses spending time with Hugh Kenner in Venice at the Joyce Symposium. Enclosed are five color photographs of Creeley, apparently while being interviewed at a table covered with his books. With postmarked envelope.
Photocopied e-mails. Harry Nudel n. p. to Robert Creeley n. p., 2000 March 26-27
An "e-pome" between Nudel and Creeley, with cover illustration by Nudel. Numbered on back "8/10." With plastic covering.
Photocopied article. Norman O. Brown, "Cleveland State University Poetry Center Jubilation of Poets Panel, 'Homage to Robert Duncan,' October 23, 1986." Sulphur #19, 1987
Photocopied form. The University of Charleston, Spiegel Show House and Guest House, undated
Photocopied poem. "For Stanford", 1993 September 6
Handwritten poem on ad for Pier 1 imports.
Photocopied sheet music. "A Plan," Words: Robert Creeley, Music: Steve Lacy, 1985 October 4
Photocopied poem. Robert Duncan, "Passages 30 (Stage Directions)", undated
Photocopied typescript. Larry Eigner, Flat and Round, 1977 November 13
A version of the aborted Pierrepont Press edition of April 1969 and the prototype for the Tuumba Press edition of 1980. Enclosed is an illustration by hand of the Löwenbräu logo.
Photocopied poem, with signed inscription. Allen Ginsberg, "White Shroud," signed "for Robert, July 12, 1984, Boulder", 1984 July 12
Photocopied poems and original manuscript. Robert Grenier, "Notes on Coolidge, Objectives, Zukofsky, Romanticism, And &," "Sticky Fingers," Lanesville, Massachusetts, with inscription, "30 from SENTENCES" cards, and "Wake Up" manuscript, 1971 July
The note on the cover page to the manuscript reads: "WAKE UP- Here's some, Love, Bob G. -want to come to reading but otherwise let's sit around This aft.? EAT with Benny & his? I'll be back here by 3."
Photocopied article, with signed inscription. James Laughlin, "Gists and Piths: From the Letters of Pound and Williams," Poetry 139:4 (January 1982), 1982 May 29
Inscription on first page, signature illegible.
Newspaper clipping. Alan Levy, "Ezra Pound's Voice of Silence," New York Times Magazine, 1972 January 9
Photocopied lecture and conversation. Allen De Loach, "V Lectures on William Burroughs: The Last Words of Dutch Schultz," "William Burroughs and Allen DeLoach Conversation", 1974 February
Photocopied poem, with signed inscription. Gerard Malanga, "Seeing and Being Seen at a Distance," 14th draft, New York, New York, 1979 April 14
Photocopied article, with signed inscription, with original envelope, in beige folder. Ralph Maud, "Charles Olson: Posthumous Editions and Studies," West Coast Review XIV:3, pp. 27-42, 1980 January
Photocopied review. Jerome Mazzaro, "Charles Olson's Maximus By Don Byrd," American Literature, undated
Original typescripts with a map. Charles Olson, "Across Space and Time," Set #1, original typescript of The Maximus Poems, pp. 404-410, map of Gloucester, Massachusetts, with envelope, 1961
Map has annotations, possibly by Gerrit Lansing. Typescript from The Maximus Poems has corrections by hand, and pasting of first page at diagonal. Envelope with writing "CHARLE'S [sic] Continuing from ..."
Photocopied typescript. "Charles Olson in Connecticut: Last Lectures", undated
Includes photocopied comments by Ed Dorn, and further annotations in blue pen by unknown hand.
Photocopied review. Sherman Paul, "Gripping, Pushing, Moving" [review of first two volumes of Olson and Creeley's Complete Correspondence], Parnassus, 1982 February 2
Photocopied articles. Georg Simmel, "The Adventurer," Sigmund Freud, "The 'Uncanny,'" Robert Smithson, "A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey," Ron Loewinsohn, "Tracking William Carlos Williams Early Development", undated
These are photocopies by Creeley. "The Adventurer" has a note in Creeley's hand on the first page.