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Box 1

 Container

Contains 53 Results:

Postcard. Florence Williams, Rutherford, New Jersey to Robert Creeley, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1961 November 22

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: EPH 5009-01
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Writes to confirm that Creeley can use a William Carlos Williams quote, and mentions Williams' recent bad health.

Dates: 1961 November 22

Letters. Basil Bunting, Shadingfield, Wylam, Northumberland to Robert Creeley, Berkeley, California, 1965 June 29, July 11

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: EPH 5009-02
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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.

Dates: 1965 June 29, July 11

Christmas card. Basil Bunting n. p. to Robert Creeey n. p., 1965 December 25

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: EPH 5009-03
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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."

Dates: 1965 December 25

Letter with enclosure. R. B. Kitaj, Berkeley, California to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1967 October 11

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: EPH 5009-04
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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.

Dates: 1967 October 11

Letter with enclosures. George Butterick, Chambersbury, Pennsylvania to Robert Creeley n. p., 1968 September 5

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: EPH 5009-05
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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.

Dates: 1968 September 5

Letter with enclosures. Robert Grenier, Cambridge, Massachusettes to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1977 May 8

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: EPH 5009-06
Scope and Contents Letter discusses enclosures, and professional prospects and difficulties, and status of New American Poetry, especially in contrast to a recently attended Robert Lowell reading. Mentions recently ended relationship with Jane Shore. Enclosed is a photocopy of a recommendation letter for Grenier from George Starbuck to Professor Bruce Mazlish at M.I.T. dated May 3, 1977. Also enclosed is a fifteen-page photocopy of Grenier's "136 seperate poems from SENTENCES" with a signed...
Dates: 1977 May 8

Photocopied letter. Jeremy Prynne, Cambridge, England to Ed Dorn, n. p., 1981 February 22

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: EPH 5009-08
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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.

Dates: 1981 February 22

Letter with enclosure. Fielding Dawson, New York, New York to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1982 April 21

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: EPH 5009-09
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Discusses an interview with Creeley in C-Express, and a recent visit to Buffalo. Also discusses publishing possibilities and Creeley's upcoming trip to England. Enclosed is a postcard sized color paper collage. With manilla envelope with writing in Creeley's hand on back: "Fee's collage enclosed."

Dates: 1982 April 21

Letter with enclosure. Robert Grenier n. p. to Robert Creeley n. p., 1986 February 25

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: EPH 5009-10
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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."

Dates: 1986 February 25

Letter with encolsures. Klaus Reichert, Frankfurt, Germany to Robert Creeley, Waldoboro, Maine, 1988 August 8

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: EPH 5009-11
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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.

Dates: 1988 August 8

Letter with enclosure. Gerard Malanga n. p. to Robert Creeley n. p., 1999 September 28

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: EPH 5009-12
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Letter mentions an exhibition of Creeley and Joe Brainard, which Malanga visited at the New York Public Library. Seems the letter originally included an enclosure of "archival pix, taken by Charles's friend, Indra." Also provides Malanga's new website. Enclosed is a poem - at once the list of photographs - 'Dog Barking' "for David Moriyama," signed by Malanga and dated "27:ix:99 nyc."

Dates: 1999 September 28

Photocopied e-mails. Harry Nudel n. p. to Robert Creeley n. p., 2000 March 26-27

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: EPH 5009-13
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An "e-pome" between Nudel and Creeley, with cover illustration by Nudel. Numbered on back "8/10." With plastic covering.

Dates: 2000 March 26-27

Letter with enclosure. Charles Bernstein, New York, New York to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1980 September 5

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: EPH 5009-14
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About 75-word ALS. With photocopy of Bernstein's "Thought's Measure," described as "notes from a series of eleven workshops at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in the Winter of 1980," with several corrections in Bernstein's hand. With postmarked manilla envelope.

Dates: 1980 September 5

Photocopied poem. "For Stanford", 1993 September 6

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: EPH 5009-17
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Handwritten poem on ad for Pier 1 imports.

Dates: 1993 September 6

Photocopied poems. "Gedichte von Robert Creeley", undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: EPH 5009-18
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German translations beside Creeley's original poems: "I Know a Man," "For Love," "The Language," "After," "The Edge," "Mother's Voice."

Dates: undated

Photocopied poem. John Cage, "Writing Through The Cantos", undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: EPH-5009-25
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An earlier draft of the published piece.

Dates: undated

Photocopied typescript. Larry Eigner, Flat and Round, 1977 November 13

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Identifier: EPH-5009-26
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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.

Dates: 1977 November 13

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

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Identifier: EPH-5009-29
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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."

Dates: 1971 July