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. Fielding Dawson, New York, New York to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1982 April 21
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."
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.
Letter with enclosure. Gerard Malanga n. p. to Robert Creeley n. p., 1999 September 28
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."
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.
Letter with enclosure. Charles Bernstein, New York, New York to Robert Creeley, Buffalo, New York, 1980 September 5
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.
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 poems. "Gedichte von Robert Creeley", undated
German translations beside Creeley's original poems: "I Know a Man," "For Love," "The Language," "After," "The Edge," "Mother's Voice."
Photocopied lecture. "Laudatio auf Robert Creeley, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Kunste, München, 1993 December 7
Photocopied sheet music. "A Plan," Words: Robert Creeley, Music: Steve Lacy, 1985 October 4
Photocopied article. "Robert Creeley, 1926-, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 10, undated
Offset printed poems, with signed inscription. Robert Duncan, "A Seventeeth Century Suite in Homage to the Metaphysical Genius in Poetry (1590-1690): Being Imitations, Derivations & Variations Upon Certain Conceits & Findings Made Among Hard Lines," "Passages 36," [Bertholf A44], undated
With signed inscription and note beginning "To Bob & Bobbie" on back of last page.
Offset printed notes and letters. Robert Duncan, "from Notes on the Structure of Rime done for Warren Tallman, Spring 1961" [Bertholf C244], "Notes 1973: A Psycho-Physiognomy," "Some Letters to Charles Olson" as in Maps #6, 1974
Photocopied poem. Robert Duncan, "Passages 30 (Stage Directions)", undated
Photocopied poem. John Cage, "Writing Through The Cantos", undated
An earlier draft of the published piece.
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 article. Ekbert Faas, "'The Barbaric Friendship with Robert': A Biographical Palimpsest" Mosaic XI:2, pp. 141-152, 1987
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."