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John Taggart Papers

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John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: John Taggart Papers Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0011 Physical Description: 29.6 Linear feet (69 archives boxes, 1 records carton and 2 oversized folders) Date (inclusive): 1962-2012 Abstract: Papers of John Taggart, a contemporary American poet known for his formal and prosodic innovations. The collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of Taggart's published and unpublished poetry, juvenilia from the 1960s and 70s, fiction, and essays devoted to the work of individual artists such as George Oppen and Edward Hopper as well as collective movements such as the Objectivist poets. The collection also contains many of his personal journals, notebooks, and loose notecards, as well as ongoing correspondence with writers, artists, and editors such as Theodore Enslin and Susan Howe. Scope and Content of Collection Papers of John Taggart, a contemporary American poet known for his formal and prosodic innovations, and literary technique associated with Objectivist theory. The collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of Taggart's published and unpublished poetry, juvenilia from the 1960s and 70s, fiction, and essays devoted to the work of individual artists such as George Oppen and Edward Hopper as well as collective movements such as the Objectivist poets. The collection also contains many of his personal journals, notebooks, and loose notecards, as well as ongoing correspondence with writers, artists, and editors such as Theodore Enslin and Susan Howe. Accessions Processed in 1987 The bulk of this accession dates from the early 1970s when Taggart was a doctoral student at Syracuse University, assembling his first collection of poetry and editing Maps. It also includes essays completed by Taggart while an undergraduate at Earlham College and a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Arranged in seven series: 1) NOTEBOOKS AND JOTTINGS, 2) POETRY, 3) FICTION, 4) TRANSLATIONS, 5) ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, 6) CORRESPONDENCE and 7) MISCELLANEOUS. Accessions Processed in 1989 Arranged in four series: 8) POETRY, 9) ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, 10) CORRESPONDENCE and 11) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ACCESSIONS PROCESSED IN 1991-2000 Arranged in three series: 12) CORRESPONDENCE, 13) WRITINGS and 14) NOTEBOOKS. Accession Processed in 2005, 2015 Additional materials highlighting Taggart's literary and teaching career, including more recent letters from colleagues, editors and fellow poets, numerous drafts of both published and unpublished poems and critical works, as well as composition notebooks. Arranged in three series: 15) CORRESPONDENCE, 16) WRITINGS and 17) NOTEBOOKS. Biography John Taggart was born in 1942 in Guthrie Center, Iowa. He graduated with honors in 1965 from Earlham College in Indiana, earning a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy. In 1966 he received a M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Chicago, and in 1974 he completed a Ph.D. in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Syracuse University. His dissertation, titled "Intending a Solid Object: A Study in Objectivist Poetics," was one of the first extended discussions of the compositional strategies informing the work of poets Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen. Though the work has never been published as a monograph, revised sections of it have appeared in Louis Zukofsky: Man and Poet, edited by Carroll F. Terrell (National Poetry Foundation, 1979) and Credences: Journal of Twentieth Century Poetry and Poetics (nos. 2-3 Fall/Winter, 1982). Taggart's poetry first appeared in print in 1965, when three poems, "Upon the Sweeping Flood," "An Egyptian Cat," and an "Evening with Anna Akhmatova" were published in Crucible. Since then, Taggart's work has appeared in many literary journals including The North American Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly, Ironwood, Boundry 2, Sulfur and Temblor. His work was featured in the 1969 summer issue of Cid Corman's Origin, and the 1979 spring issue of Paper Air was given over entirely to Taggart's work. Besides Taggart's long poem Peace on Earth, a "healing prayer" on the Vietnam War, the issue included commentary on Taggart's work by Toby Olson, Bruce Andrews, Jackson Mac Low, Paul Metcalf, and several others.

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 2 Taggart's poetry has been printed in several anthologies including The Gist of Origin (Grossman, 1975), Pushcart Prize Anthology (Avon, 1980), New Directions: An International Anthology of Prose and Poetry (issues 24 and 41), and Poetes Americans D'Aujourd'hui (Delta, 1986). In addition to numerous appearances in literary magazines and journals, Taggart has also published several collections of verse including To Construct a Clock, The Pyramid is a Pure Crystal, and Prism and the Pine Twig (Elizabeth Press 1971, 1974 and 1977 respectively), Dodeka, with an introduction by Robert Duncan (Membrane, 1979), Peace on Earth (Turtle Island, 1981), Dehiscence (Membrane, 1983), Loop (Sun and Moon, 1991), Standing Wave (Lost Roads, 1993), When the Saints (Talisman House, 1999), Pastorelles (Flood Editions, 2004), Crosses: Poems 1992-1998 (Stop Press, 2006), There Are Birds (Flood Editions, 2008) and Is Music: Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Taggart has earned a reputation as a judicious, though infrequent, commentator on contemporary American poetry. In addition to seminal articles on Zukofsky, Oppen and Objectivist poetics, Taggart has also reviewed the work of Wallace Stevens, William Bronk, Robert Duncan, Bruce Andrews, Theodore Enslin, and several other contemporary American poets. He was also the editor and publisher of Maps, an acclaimed literary magazine appearing during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and, in 1978, edited an issue of Truck (1978) devoted to the work of Enslin. Taggart was a professor of literature and creative writing at Shippensburg State University from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. His work as writer and teacher has been awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship (1965), a Distinguished Academic Service Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, a Pushcart Prize, and the Chicago Review Poetry Prize, as well as two National Endowments for the Arts Writing Fellowships (1976 and 1986). Preferred Citation John Taggart Papers, MSS 11. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Acquisition Information Acquired 1983-2012. Restrictions The reel-to-reel audio tape in box 23 is restricted. Researchers must request a user copy be produced. Publication Rights Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection. Subjects and Indexing Terms American poetry -- 20th century Weil, James L. -- Correspondence Young, Karl, 1947- -- Correspondence Howe, Susan, 1937- -- Correspondence Metcalf, Paul C. -- Correspondence Olson, Toby -- Correspondence Butterick, George F. -- Correspondence Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 -- Correspondence Enslin, Theodore -- Correspondence Graves, Bradford, 1939-1998 -- Correspondence Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Correspondence Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Correspondence Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 -- Correspondence Bernstein, Charles, 1950- -- Correspondence Silliman, Ronald, 1946- -- Correspondence Oppen, George -- Correspondence Taggart, John, 1942- -- Archives

Accessions Processed in 1987

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 3 Accessions Processed in 1987 NOTEBOOKS AND JOTTINGS

NOTEBOOKS AND JOTTINGS Scope and Content of Series Series 1) NOTEBOOKS AND JOTTINGS: Consists of notebooks, journals, and notecards dating from 1963 to 1983, and newspaper clippings with annotations or attached notes. Most of the earlier notebooks appear related to classes Taggart attended at Earlham College and Syracuse University. The loose notecards filed in this series are citations taken from his reading during the 1970s. (Taggart has been fond of composing on notecards and small sizes of loose leaf paper before preparing a final draft on standard 8 x 11 paper. Typically these notecards have been filed with or in close proximity to the typescript to which they pertain, but only when that relationship was quite evident.) The journals written during the 1980s are more closely connected to subsequently published work; they often contain seed ideas for poems and essays, but also citations from and comments on other writers.

Box 1, Folder 1-4 Earlham notebook 1963 - 1964 Box 1, Folder 5 Notebook 1969 Box 1, Folder 6 Notebook "Surrealism" 1969 Box 1, Folder 7 Notebook "Arts-Ideas of 18th Century" Box 1, Folder 8 Notebook "Analytic Problems in Visual Arts" 1969 Box 1, Folder 9 Notebook "Wittgenstein" 1970 Box 1, Folder 10 Selected notebooks on Romanticism Box 1, Folder 11 Selected notes on Walt Whitman Box 1, Folder 12 Selected notes on Arnold Schoenberg Box 1, Folder 13 Notes on Luminist painters 1975 Box 1, Folder 14 Assorted notecards Box 2, Folder 1-3 Assorted notecards 1978 Box 2, Folder 4 Notebook 1981 - 1982 Box 2, Folder 5 Journal 1982 Box 2, Folder 6 Notebook 1982 - 1983 Box 2, Folder 7-11 Newspaper clippings with notes attached

POETRY Scope and Content of Series Series 2) POETRY: Worksheets, heavily annotated drafts, and final versions of poems. Arranged in three subseries: A) Juvenilia and Unpublished Poetry, B) Uncollected Published Poetry and C) Collected Works. A) Juvenilia and Unpublished Poetry: 110 or so unpublished poems, many of which are standard academic exercises, such as odes, sonnets, elegies, etc., dating from ca. 1963-1968. There are also a few poems written for Donald Justice's poetry workshops at Syracuse University, which are annotated by Justice. (Several of the poems in this template may have appeared in print.) Arranged alphabetically. B) Uncollected Published Poetry: 45 published poems which have not been collected in any of Taggart's books, dating from 1964 to 1985. Arranged alphabetically. C) Collected Works: Works published under the following titles: Liveforever, a lyrical mixture of poetry and meditations on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger; To Construct a Clock (1972); The Pyramid is a Pure Crystal (1974); Prism and the Pine Twig (1977); Dodeka (1979); Peace on Earth (1981); Dehiscence (1983); and Loop. Organization mirrors the arrangement of the published collection to which the poems pertain. Dates for the composition of individual poems are given as provided by the poet.

Juvenilia and Unpublished Poetry Box 2, Folder 12 Adultery, 1928: A Model 1969 Box 2, Folder 13 And this has also been... 1965 Box 2, Folder 14 Anise Box 2, Folder 15 Antinous of Eleusis

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Box 2, Folder 16 Approximations of a Galvometer Box 2, Folder 17 Artemis 1965 Box 2, Folder 18 At the Grave of Blind Lemon Jefferson 1965 Box 2, Folder 19 Bowl-Ring Valentine Poem 1970 Box 2, Folder 20 Burning of My Cock's House Box 3, Folder 1 But There Is No Evading 1974 Box 3, Folder 2 Chirographi Box 3, Folder 3 Coming Forth By Day 1966 Box 3, Folder 4 Dancing - Lesson Box 3, Folder 5 David Smith Box 3, Folder 6 Day's Sickness 1965 Box 3, Folder 7 Dead is Now That Bankrupt Box 3, Folder 8 Despairing Box 3, Folder 9 Early, Adolescent Solipsism 1964 Box 3, Folder 10 Eight Lines on the State of the Nation / Realizati Box 3, Folder 11 Emily Dickinson 1965 Box 3, Folder 12 Evening with Anna Akmatova Box 3, Folder 13 Eyes That Look Through Many Branches Box 3, Folder 14 Father and Son 1965 Box 3, Folder 15 Flame Fusion 1974 Box 3, Folder 16 Fear Behind the Curtain Box 3, Folder 17 Few words for... 1968 Box 3, Folder 18 First Fragment: Sappho to Aphrodita Box 3, Folder 19 For One Percussionist Box 3, Folder 20 Garden of Cyrus 1974 Box 3, Folder 21 Georgia O'Keefe's Breasts.. Box 3, Folder 22 Happiness Box 3, Folder 23 Hash Gift Returned Box 3, Folder 24 How white bodies ought.. Box 3, Folder 25 Im Felden: The Unfaithful Shephard Box 3, Folder 26 In a Summer Season Box 3, Folder 27 In Honor of This High Feast Box 3, Folder 28 In My Father's House Box 3, Folder 29 Innocent Dream of a Young White Man Box 3, Folder 30 In Our City 1968 Box 3, Folder 31 It is a Relief Box 3, Folder 32 Khum Box 3, Folder 33 Le Sperme Box 3, Folder 34 Let Him Kiss Me Box 3, Folder 35 Main 1969 Box 3, Folder 36 Mantis and The Bee Box 3, Folder 37 Marriage 1964 Box 3, Folder 38 Mummy, Seen... 1965 Box 3, Folder 39 Musick of... 1965 Box 3, Folder 40 My Brother Has Committed a Crime Box 3, Folder 41 Narcissus Box 3, Folder 42 Nothing Is So Lovely as a Lie Box 3, Folder 43 Nuances of a Theme by Stevens Box 3, Folder 44 Nuances of a Theme of Rilke Box 3, Folder 45 Ode for Gnaeus, Marcius, Surnamed 1964 Box 3, Folder 46 Ode for Titus Manlius, Son of God 1964 Box 3, Folder 47 Ode on a Bird Called the Phoenix 1964 Box 3, Folder 48 Ode on the Banishment of Appuleia Varilia Box 3, Folder 49 Ode on the Battle of Cannae 1964 Box 3, Folder 50 Ode on the Birds of Evil Omen 1964 Box 3, Folder 51 Ode on the Death of Lutorius Priscus 1964 Box 3, Folder 52 Ode on the Death of Seneca 1964 Box 3, Folder 53 On a Painting by Rousseau

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Box 3, Folder 54 Osiris: For Her Hand, Crumpled Box 3, Folder 55 Painting: "Femme et enfants..." Box 3, Folder 56 Painting, No. 2: "Femmes affrayees..." Box 3, Folder 57 Panama, The Dream Box 3, Folder 58 Passive girl reading.. Box 3, Folder 59 Piano Lessons, 1916-17 Matisse Box 3, Folder 60 Please Forward If Found 1968 Box 3, Folder 61 Poem For My Birthday Box 3, Folder 62 Poem for Looking Where Bud Powell... Box 3, Folder 63 Poem for Willis 1965 Box 3, Folder 64 Poem Upon the Death of My Grandfather 1965 Box 3, Folder 65 Poet talks quietly Box 3, Folder 66 Question Box 3, Folder 67 Rain Box 3, Folder 68 Raking Horse Manure Box 3, Folder 69 Randolph Street, Chicago 1956 1964 Box 3, Folder 70 Reading Lesson 1972 Box 3, Folder 71 Real Hate Rises from Its Obscure Field Box 3, Folder 72 Remote Flowers Box 3, Folder 73 Samuel Beckett's Last Words Box 3, Folder 74 Search for the Fecund Minimum Box 3, Folder 75 She Burned Box 3, Folder 76 Shells 1968 Box 3, Folder 77 She May Ask Him Box 3, Folder 78 Sometimes, When It All Hangs In Air 1965 Box 3, Folder 79 Song Breaks Dragon's Teeth 1965 Box 3, Folder 80 Sonnet for a Portuguese Nun 1965 Box 3, Folder 81 Stone Breakers Make Way Box 3, Folder 82 Syd Valentine.. Box 3, Folder 83 Tamarisk and Grass 1984 Box 3, Folder 84 That is the Poem 1974 Box 3, Folder 85 There Was a Clamouring Crowd Box 3, Folder 86 There Was a Man Box 3, Folder 87 These Nostril Hairs Box 3, Folder 88 This Is So Box 3, Folder 89 Thoughts Are Trees Box 3, Folder 90 Transaction 1969 Box 3, Folder 91 Tribute to Charles Ives Box 3, Folder 92 Turn Away As From a Snake Box 3, Folder 93 Two Sisters Box 3, Folder 94 Unexpected, I Box 3, Folder 95 Upstate N.Y. Dusk Poem 1974 Box 3, Folder 96 Verses on an Ionian Analogy Box 3, Folder 97 Villa Lante, No. 2 Box 3, Folder 98 Waiting for Things to Become Clear Box 3, Folder 99 When the Cathedrals Were White 1964 Box 3, Folder 100 Whistling Clay Bull Made in Mexico Box 3, Folder 101 Why the Nights Are Quiet Box 3, Folder 102 Winter, Radio Poem 1968 Box 3, Folder 103 Words at my School 1969 Uncollected Published Poetry Box 4, Folder 1 7 Series Box 4, Folder 2 Antimasque for Antonio Box 4, Folder 3 Body and Soul Box 4, Folder 4 Christopher Columbus and the Guitar Factory 1964 Box 4, Folder 5 DeathBean Man 1965 Box 4, Folder 6 Die Logik 1975 Box 4, Folder 7 Disease Called Takeoff 1981

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Box 4, Folder 8 Enticements 1985 Box 4, Folder 9 German Game 1970 Box 4, Folder 10 Gift of Fossils Box 4, Folder 11 In Chicago, On a Bus Box 4, Folder 12 In Itself 1987 Box 4, Folder 13 Inquiry 1987 Box 4, Folder 14 K Variations Box 4, Folder 15 Knee 1969 Box 4, Folder 16 Kore's Sleeping Song Box 4, Folder 17 Lester Young Pursued.. Box 4, Folder 18 My Daughter Sarah Gives.. Box 4, Folder 19 Nasturtium 1969 Box 4, Not Quite Parallel Lines 1985 Folder 20-22 Box 4, Folder 23 Noun Can Be Best 1974 Box 4, Folder 24 One True Love Box 4, Folder 25 Poem for Morandi 1975 Box 4, Folder 26 Prayer No. 20 1986 Box 4, Folder 27 Question 1974 Box 4, Reading of Something Written 1985 Folder 28-29 Rothko Chapel Poem Box 4, Drafts 1983 Folder 30-32 Box 5, Folder 1 Page proofs for "Conjunctions"; letter from Bradford Morrow 1984 Box 5, Folder 2 Page proofs for "Temblor"; letter from Leland Hickman 1985 Box 5, Folder 3 Rub Her Coke 1974 Box 5, Folder 4 Rule 14 L 1984 Box 5, Folder 5 Stone 1974 Box 5, Folder 6 Strip or Ribbon Box 5, Folder 7 Tall Man Box 5, Folder 8 Violet Box 5, Folder 9 Walking and Running: A Model 1971 Box 5, Folder 10 What I said to Monk 1968 Box 5, Folder 11 Which Explains Box 5, Folder 12 Young Man Said to Me Box 5, Folder 13 Young White Man Steps Out.. Box 5, Folder 14 Bound workbook 1969 - 1972 Collected Works Liveforever Box 5, Drafts Folder 15-16 Box 5, Second version 1970 Folder 17-20 Box 5, Folder 21 Two notebooks - Some material concerns THE PYRAMID IS A PURE CRYSTAL To Construct a Clock (1972) Box 5, Folder 22 Ricercar, pp. 11-12 Box 5, Folder 23 Egg, pp. 13-14 Box 5, Folder 24 Box, pp. 15-16 Box 5, Folder 25 Position, p.17 Box 6, Folder 1 Resemblances, p. 18 1968 Box 6, Folder 2 Signification, Burrs, p. 19 Box 6, Folder 3 Problem, p. 20 1970 Box 6, Folder 4 There Was a Cat, p. 21 Box 6, Folder 5 Miro's "The Kiss," p. 22 Box 6, Folder 6 Deceased Man, p. 23 Box 6, Folder 7 Drum Thing, p.24 Box 6, Folder 8 Corot's "Women With Child"

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Box 6, Folder 9 Head in a Mirror, pp. 27-28 Box 6, Folder 10 Room, pp. 29-30 Box 6, Folder 11 Dance of Sleeves, pp. 31-33 Box 6, Folder 12 Eroded Rock, 1942, pp. 34-38 Box 6, Folder 13 Liveforever: Of Actual Things..., pp. 39-45 Box 6, Folder 14 Bound typescript 1972 The Pyramid is a Pure Crystal (1974) Box 6, Folder 15 Notebook 1972 Box 6, Worksheets Folder 16-17 Box 6, Folder 18 Manuscript 1971 - 1972 Box 6, Folder 19 Typescript Box 6, Folder 20 Publisher's typescript Box 6, Folder 21 Page proofs Prism and the Pine Twig (1977) Box 6, Folder 22 I live in a barn, p. 9 Box 6, Folder 23 They and We, no. 1 of "3 Poems...," p. 10 1974 Box 6, Folder 24 Tzuzumi, no. 2 of "3 Poems...," pp. 11-12 1974 Box 6, Folder 25 After-Image, no. 3 of "3 Poems...," p. 13 1974 Box 6, Folder 26 Black Puritan Trees of..., p. 15 1974 Box 6, Folder 27 Balance / Rest, p. 16 1974 Box 6, Folder 28 Square Order Shuffle, p. 17 1974 Box 6, Folder 29 Contrafact, pp. 18-19 1974 Box 6, Folder 30 Weight, pp. 21-22 1974 Box 6, Folder 31 Thought, Walking Away from Town, p. 23 1974 Box 6, Folder 32 Ars Poetics, p. 24 1974 Box 6, Folder 33 Bat-Geode, p. 25 1975 Box 6, Folder 34 Prism and the Pine Twig, p. 26 1975 Box 6, Folder 35 Jennifer's Poem, p. 27 1972 Box 6, Folder 36 Good-Bye, pp. 28-30 1975 Box 6, Folder 37 Dipytch: Some Words of Meister Eckhart, pp. 31-32 1975 Box 7, Folder 1 Notebook from Prism and the Pine Twig and Dodeka 1974 Dodeka (1979) Box 7, Folder 2 Notecards Box 7, Folder 3 Source essays Box 7, Folder 4-10 First version 1975-1976 Box 7, Second version 1976 Folder 11-13 Box 7, Folder 14 First unison Box 7, Last version Folder 15-16 Box 8, Folder 1-9 Last version Box 8, Dodeka Folder 10-11 Peace on Earth (1981) Box 8, Folder 12 Giant Steps 1978 Box 8, Folder 13 Slow Song for Mark Rothko Box 8, Peace on Earth Folder 14-15 Box 8, Inside Out Folder 16-17 Dehiscence (1983) Box 9, Folder 1 Typescripts Box 9, Folder 2-6 Worksheets Box 9, Folder 7 Typescript Box 9, Folder 8 Cover art Loop (1987) Box 9, Folder 9 Notebook: "New Poetry for Mild Shouting Poems" 1983

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Box 9, Folder 10 Sumac: for George Oppen 1980 Box 9, Folder 11 Sumac 1981 Box 9, O for a Thousand Tongues 1980 Folder 12-13 Box 9, Folder 14 Babble, Babble 1980 Box 9, Folder 15 See What Love 1981 Box 10, Folder 1 Mild Shouting Poem - Includes a letter from William Spanos 1981 Box 10, Folder 2 Bird Run Box 10, Folder 3 Very Slow 1981 Box 10, Folder 4-5 Brace's Cove - Includes two letters from G. Butterick 1981 Box 10, Folder 6 Wild Blue Phlox 1981 Box 10, Folder 7 My Name Called Out 1981 Box 10, Folder 8 Nativity 1981 Box 10, Folder 9 Against the Nurses of Experience 1982 Box 10, Folder 10 In True Night 1982 Box 10, Folder 11 Sine Cura, Securum 1982 Box 10, Folder 12 Lily Alone 1982 Box 10, Folder 13 Not Raw Enough 1982 Box 10, Twenty-One Times Folder 14-15 Box 10, Folder 16 Through Planes 1982 Box 10, Folder 17 Return to Dehiscence 1982 Box 11, Folder 1 Beware 1982 Box 11, Folder 2-3 Were You 1983 Box 11, Folder 4 Monk 1983 Box 11, Folder 5-6 Never Too Late 1983 Box 11, Folder 7 Orange Berries and Chain Letter 1987 Box 11, Folder 8 Repetition 1983 Box 11, Folder 9 Pen Vine and Scroll 1983 Box 11, Folder 10 Loop 1983 Box 11, Folder 11 Let's Be Indians and For Jerry Lee Lewis 1983 Box 11, Folder 12 Desire 1985 Box 11, Folder 13 Night Train 1985 Box 11, Folder 14 Three 1985 Box 11, Loop Folder 15-16

FICTION Scope and Content of Series Series 3) FICTION: Six unpublished works.

Box 11, Folder 17 Into a More Gray Distant Suburb Box 11, Folder 18 Skyaminos Not Yet Ascended Box 11, Folder 19 Fiftieth Gate Box 11, Folder 20 He Fell, Thunderously.. Box 11, Folder 21 Young America Box 11, Folder 22 Nothing But Dust.. Box 11, Folder 23 Packing envelope for fiction

TRANSLATIONS

Box 11, Folder 24 Sappho's First Fragment Box 11, Folder 25 Francis Ponge's My Creative Method

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 9 Accessions Processed in 1987 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Scope and Content of Series Series 5) ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Unpublished and B) Published. A) Unpublished: Consists almost wholly of papers written for undergraduate and graduate courses, most of which address the works of literary authors. Of particular interest are the papers regarding Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman and Henry Miller, and Taggart's dissertation on the Objectivist poets. B) Published: Includes papers treating the work of William Bronk, Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky, and Susan Howe. It also includes two statements of Taggart's poetics, "The Poem as Woven Scarf" and "Of the Power of the Word," as well as correspondence to Taggart from various writers, artists, and editors.

Unpublished Box 12, Folder 1 Theology of the 1 Isaiah 1962 Box 12, Folder 2 Concerning Fate in the Iliad 1963 Box 12, Folder 3 Explication of a Poem by Dylan Thomas Box 12, Folder 4 Paper on Gerard Manley Hopkins Box 12, Folder 5 Paper on Samuel Johnson Box 12, Folder 6 Paper on Lyrical Ballads Box 12, Folder 7 Paper on Classical Ideal of Art Box 12, Folder 8 Paper on Jonathan Edwards 1964 Box 12, Folder 9 Paper on Richard Crashaw 1964 Box 12, Folder 10 Paper on John Milton 1964 Box 12, Folder 11 Paper on Dante and Ezra Pound 1964 Box 12, Folder 12 Paper on Franz Kafka Box 12, Folder 13 Paper on William Shakespeare 1964 Box 12, Folder 14 Paper on Marlowe and Shakespeare 1964 Box 12, Folder 15 Paper on Jean-Paul Sartre Box 12, Folder 16 Paper on Stephen Spender 1965 Box 12, Papers on Wallace Stevens 1965 Folder 17-18 Box 12, Folder 19 Paper on Edmund Spenser 1965 Box 12, Folder 20 3rd Paper on Wallace Stevens 1965 Box 12, Folder 21 Paper on Joan Miro 1965 Box 12, Folder 22 4th Paper on Wallace Stevens 1968 Box 12, Folder 23 Paper on Wolfgang Mozart 1968 Box 12, Folder 24 Review of Frank Samperi Paper on Walt Whitman and Henry Miller Box 12, Notes Folder 25-28 Box 13, Folder 1-2 Notes & drafts Box 13, Folder 3-4 Paper on Miller and the Whitman Tradition Box 13, Folder 5 On Working With Dancers Intending a Solid Object, Ph. D. thesis 1974 Box 13, Folder 6-7 Notes Box 13, Abstract, chapters 1-7, bibliography Folder 8-11 Box 13, Folder 12 Notes for bibliography of work by Cid Corman Box 13, Folder 13 Notes and draft for talk on Pablo Neruda Box 13, Folder 14 Statement of influences Published Box 14, Folder 1 Deep Jewels: George Oppen's SEASCAPE: Needle's Eye Box 14, Folder 2-3 Reading William Bronk - Notecards & typescript Box 14, Folder 4 Enslin Symposium (issue of Truck edited by Taggart) Box 14, Folder 5-6 The New Primitive - Notes & typescript

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 10 Accessions Processed in 1987 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

Box 14, Louis Zukofsky: "Song of Degrees" Folder 7-13 Box 14, Folder 14 Poem as Woven Scarf Box 14, Folder 15 Of the Power of the Word Box 14, Folder 16 Review of Susan Howe's Pythagorean Silence

CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 6) CORRESPONDENCE: Charles Bernstein, George Butterick, Robert Creeley, Ted Enslin, Bradford Graves, Susan Howe, Paul Metcalf, Toby Olson, George Oppen, Ron Silliman, James Weil, and Karl Young are some of the major represented correspondents. Also includes letters from Rene Char, Robert Duncan, Leslie Fiedler, and Louis Zukofsky. Several of the correspondent's files contain literary manuscripts or typescripts by the correspondent.

Box 15, Folder 1 Andrews, Bruce 1973 - 1978 Box 15, Folder 2 Barone, Dennis 1982 - 1985 Box 15, Folder 3-4 Bernstein, Charles 1978 - 1985 Box 15, Folder 5 Bronk, William 1975 Box 15, Butterick, George 1970 - 1985 Folder 6-11 Box 15, Folder 12 Byrd, Bobby 1980 - 1985 Box 15, Folder 13 Byrd, Don 1984 Box 15, Folder 14 Callahan, Bob 1979 - 1980 Box 15, Folder 15 Carruth, Hayden 1971 - 1985 Box 15, Folder 16 Char, Rene 1966 Box 15, Folder 17 Corman, Cid 1972 Box 15, Creeley, Robert 1979 - 1985 Folder 18-19 Box 15, Folder 20 Cuddihy, Michael 1983 - 1985 Box 15, Folder 21 Duncan, Robert 1973 - 1978 Box 15, Folder 22 DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 1981, 1984 Box 15, Folder 23 Economu, George 1975 Box 15, Folder 24 Edson, Russell 1976 - 1979 Box 15, Folder 25 Elliott, George P. 1978 - 1979 Box 15, Folder 26 Ellison, Ralph Enslin, Theodore Box 15, 1975 - 1977 Folder 27-28 Box 16, Folder 1-7 1978 - 1985 Box 16, Folder 8 Eshleman, Clayton 1982 - 1985 Box 16, Folder 9 Ferreni, Vincent 1971 Box 16, Folder 10 Fiedler, Leslie 1978 Box 16, Folder 11 Golding, Alan 1983 - 1985 Box 16, Folder 12 Gottleib, Michael 1978 Box 16, Graves, Bradford 1981 - 1985 Folder 13-14 Box 16, Folder 15 Hejinian, Lyn 1974 - 1978 Box 16, Folder 16 Hickman, Leland 1983 - 1985 Box 16, Howe, Susan 1981 - 1985 Folder 17-21 Box 16, Folder 22 Johnson, Ronald 1974 Box 16, Folder 23 Justice, Donald 1979 - 1981 Box 16, Folder 24 Kitchell, Marilyn 1984 - 1985 Box 16, Folder 25 Mackey, Nathaniel 1982 - 1984 Box 16, Folder 26 Messerli, Douglas 1978 - 1979 Metcalf, Paul

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Box 16, 1978 - 1981 Folder 27-28 Box 17, Folder 1-2 1982 - 1983 Box 17, Folder 3 Morrow, Bradford 1982 - 1985 Box 17, Folder 4-9 Olson, Toby 1970 - 1985 Box 17, Oppen, George and Mary 1970, 1980 Folder 10-11 Box 17, Folder 12 Ortiz, Simon 1980 - 1981 Box 17, Folder 13 Palmer, Michael 1982 - 1985 Box 17, Folder 14 Pearson, Norman Holmes 1974 - 1975 Box 17, Folder 15 Piper, Paul 1983 - 1985 Box 17, Rothenberg, Jerome 1976 - 1983 Folder 16-17 Box 17, Folder 18 Samperi, Frank 1973 Box 17, Folder 19 Sherman, Bill 1974 Box 17, Folder 20 Sherry, James 1978 Box 17, Silliman, Ron 1971 - 1980 Folder 21-24 Box 17, Folder 25 Snyder, Gary 1972 - 1979 Box 17, Folder 26 Sorrentino, Gilbert 1976 - 1979 Box 17, Folder 27 Stryk, Lucien 1982 - 1983 Box 18, Folder 1 Tarn, Nathaniel and Janet 1978 - 1981 Box 18, Folder 2 Tarn, Nathaniel 1983 - 1985 Box 18, Folder 3-4 Waldrop, Keith and Rosmarie 1972 - 1979 Box 18, Folder 5-6 Watson, Craig 1982 - 1985 Box 18, Folder 7 Watten, Barrett 1972 - 1973 Box 18, Weil, James 1969 - 1979 Folder 8-10 Box 18, Folder 11 Williams, Jonathan 1977 - 1978 Box 18, Folder 12 Wilson, Keith 1973 Box 18, Young, Karl 1974 - 1985 Folder 13-18 Box 18, Folder 19 Zukofsky, Louis and Celia 1970 - 1980 Box 18, Folder 20 Miscellaneous correspondence

MISCELLANEOUS Scope and Content of Series Series 7) MISCELLANEOUS: Includes C.E. Hockersmith's musical settings for four of Taggart's poems, syllabi for courses Taggart taught at Shippensburg State University, and various publicity releases.

Box 18, Folder 21 Course syllabi and form for professorial evaluation Box 18, Folder 22 Publicity releases Box 18, Folder 23 Four musical compositions by C.E. Hockersmith Accessions Processed in 1989

POETRY Scope and Content of Series Series 8) POETRY: Includes materials on the poems Dodeka and Loop, which directly relate to the previously processed accession. The Dodeka files contain a version prepared for poetry readings, which varies from the published edition; while the Loop materials comprise worksheets for poems not included in the previous Loop subseries. Taggart's latest poems are organized under the title Standing Wave and are arranged by order in which they will appear in the published work.

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Box 19, Folder 1-3 Dodeka - Version prepared for reading purposes with variations from published edition 1979 LOOP Box 19, Folder 4 Reflexive and His Master's Voice 1986 Box 19, Folder 5 Saul and David 1986 Box 19, Folder 6 Game With Red 1986 Box 19, Folder 7 Crying In The Chapel and Three Kisses 1986 Box 19, Folder 8 Rougher Black Music 1986 Box 19, Folder 9 Poem Beginning With A Line by Traherne 1986 Box 19, Folder 10 For Me undated Box 19, Marvin Gaye Suite 1986 Folder 11-12 Box 19, Folder 13 That This May Be undated STANDING WAVE Box 19, Folder 14 Typescripts of final drafts Box 19, Folder 15 Last Train 1988 Box 19, Folder 16 Three Words From Thomas Bernhard 1988 Box 20, Folder 1 All the Steps 1988 Box 20, Folder 2 King of Eynan 1988 Box 20, Folder 3 Blueweed 1988 Box 20, Folder 4 Star Dust 1988 Box 20, Folder 5 In The Sense Of 1988 Box 20, Folder 6 Black And White Close-Up 1988 Box 20, Folder 7 In And Under 1988 Box 20, Folder 8 Question No Question and The Face of Love 1988 Box 20, Folder 9 Take Away 1988 Box 20, Folder 10 How Long 1988 Box 20, Folder 11 Standing Wave 1988 Box 20, Folder 12 For Instance and Free Gifts 1988 Box 20, Folder 13 Alternate Take 1988 Box 21, Folder 1 Rereading 1988 Box 21, Folder 2 Vaguely Harmless 1988 Box 21, Folder 3 Milk and Seed 1988 Box 21, Folder 4 Ready Or Not 1988 Box 21, Folder 5 Like That And Then and "Louder" 1988

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Scope and Content of Series Series 9) ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Essays and B) Reviews. No distinction has been made regarding published versus unpublished works. The materials in each subseries are arranged alphabetically by title. A) Essays: Included among these essays are a college paper on Charles Olson, notes on a paper for the UC San Diego Oppen Conference, and an exhibition catalogue essay on the sculpture of Bradford Graves. B) Reviews: Includes Taggart reviews of the work of Theodore Enslin, Susan Howe, and Karl Young.

Essays Box 21, Folder 6-7 Come Shadow Come And Take This Shadow Up - Essay on Louis Zukofsky Box 21, Folder 8 Composition By Field: The Poetics of Charles Olson - Earlham (College) paper on projective verse Box 21, Folder 9 Essay For Brad Graves' Show - Includes notebook 1985 Box 21, George Oppen And The Anthologies Folder 10-11 Box 21, Folder 12 Notes concerning procedure in Basil Bunting's Briggflatts Box 21, Folder 13 Olson and Melville Box 21, Folder 14 Oppen notes for UCSD Oppen Conference 1986

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 13 Accessions Processed in 1989 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

Box 21, Folder 15 Prompted By Jazz Box 21, Folder 16 Prose on Poetry - Foreword Box 21, Folder 17 Review of Frank Samperi - Published in Occurrence 7 1977 Box 21, Folder 18 Slow Sing For Mark Rothko - Preface Box 21, Folder 19 Teaching Of Poetry Box 21, Folder 20 To Go Down To Go Into - Revised original Reviews Box 21, Folder 21 Enslin, Theodore. The Weather Within Box 22, Folder 1 Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson Box 22, Folder 2 Young, Karl. Five Kwaidan

CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 10) CORRESPONDENCE: Contains many of the same correspondents included in the accession processed in 1987, although more than two thirds of correspondents are new. Letters are organized by author, then arranged chronologically from earliest to latest. Among the correspondents in this series are Theodore Enslin, Bradford Graves, David Melnick, Bradford Morrow, Andrew Schelling, and Karl Young. Of special importance is the abundant correspondence between Taggart and Enslin, including both incoming and outgoing letters. The Taggard-Enslin correspondence is deeply personal and involves discussions of contemporary writing, current events, music, and philosophical issues.

Box 22, Folder 3 Unidentified correspondents Box 22, Folder 4 Alexander, Charles 1985 - 1987 Box 22, Folder 5 American Biographical Institute, Inc. 1987 Box 22, Folder 6 Ammons, Archie 1987 Box 22, Folder 7 Anderson, Cindy 1986 - 1987 Box 22, Folder 8 Andrews, Bruce 1976 Box 22, Folder 9 Barone, Dennis 1985 - 1989 Box 22, Folder 10 Berge, Carol 1970 Box 22, Folder 11 Bernstein, Charles 1986 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 12 Booth, Phillip 1988 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 13 Butterick, George 1979 - 1987 Box 22, Folder 14 Byrd, Bobby 1979 - 1987 Box 22, Folder 15 Callahan, Bob 1980 Box 22, Folder 16 Callahan, Eileen 1986 Box 22, Folder 17 Caputo, John 1988 Box 22, Folder 18 Carruth, Hayden 1986 Box 22, Folder 19 Coburn, Robert 1984 Box 22, Folder 20 Creeley, Robert 1986 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 21 Crumb, George 1985 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 22 Cuddihy, Michael 1975 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 23 Davidson, Michael 1984 Box 22, Folder 24 Dickison, Steven 1987 Box 22, Folder 25 Doyle, Mike 1970 Box 22, Folder 26 DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 1987 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 27 Edson, Russell 1970 Box 22, Enslin, Theodore 1972 - 1989 Folder 28-29 Box 22, Folder 30 Eshleman, Clayton 1986 - 1989 Box 22, Folder 31 Evans, George 1988 Box 22, Folder 32 Foss, Phillip 1987 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 33 Gartung, Karl undated Box 22, Folder 34 Gass, William 1985 Box 22, Folder 35 Gingerich, Willard 1987 - 1988 Box 22, Folder 36 Giscombe, C.S. 1985

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Box 22, Folder 37 Golding, Alan 1986 - 1989 Box 22, Folder 38 Graves, Bradford 1970 - 1989 Box 22, Folder 39 Heller, Michael 1970 Box 22, Folder 40 Hickman, Leland 1985 - 1986 Box 22, Folder 41 Hocquard, Emmanuel 1985 Box 22, Folder 42 Hoover, Paul 1988 Box 22, Folder 43 Jaffer, Frances 1987 Box 22, Folder 44 Johnson, Ronald 1985 Box 22, Folder 45 Kenner, Hugh 1987 Box 23, Folder 1 Kimmelman, Burt 1985 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 2 Kitchell, Marilyn 1986 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 3 Laughlin, James 1969 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 4 Levi Strauss, David 1986 - 1988 Box 23, Folder 5 Mac Low, Jackson 1988 Box 23, Folder 6 Marshall, Jack 1988 Box 23, Folder 7 Melnick, David 1966 - 1971 Box 23, Folder 8 Metcalf, Paul 1986 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 9 Morrow, Bradford 1985 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 10 Olson, Toby 1986 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 11 Palmer, Michael 1986 Box 23, Folder 12 Pater Faranda, Lisa 1987 Box 23, Folder 13 Perlman, John 1987 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 14 Perloff, Marjorie 1982 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 15 Perschetti, Vincent 1982 Box 23, Folder 16 Piper, Paul 1985 - 1986 Box 23, Folder 17 Quartermain, Peter 1986 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 18 Rosenblum, Martin 1986 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 19 Schelling, Andrew 1984 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 20 Scroggins, Mark 1987 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 21 Silliman, Ron 1986 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 22 Smith, Marla 1989 Box 23, Folder 23 Smith, Pat 1986 - 1988 Box 23, Folder 24 Steiner, George 1986 Box 23, Folder 25 Stevens, Holly 1970 Box 23, Folder 26 Sutton, Walter 1986 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 27 Tarn, Nathaniel 1986 Box 23, Folder 28 Tisdale, Walter 1988 - 1989 Box 23, Folder 29 Veinus, Abraham 1970 - 1988 Box 23, Folder 30 Waldrop, Rosmarie 1983 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 31 Watson, Craig 1985 - 1987 Box 23, Folder 32 Wellman, Don 1987 - 1988 Box 23, Folder 33 Young, Karl 1985 - 1989

MISCELLANEOUS Scope and Contents of Series Series 11) MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: Includes three-dimensional paper models and a metal frame used in the composition of the poem Dodeka. Also contained in this group is a reel-to-reel audio tape recording of a 1965 reading Taggart organized in support of Exclusions, which later became the magazine Maps, and a group of sketches by Bradford Graves for Taggart's book of poetry Peace on Earth.

Box 23, Folder 34 First "Exclusions" Reading - Reel-to-reel audio tape recording of a reading which Taggart organized in support of Exclusions, later his magazine Maps. Readers at the Earlham College event included Clayton Eshleman, Ronald Johnson, Jonathan Williams, as well as regional poets 1965 Restrictions Restrictions Apply

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 15 Accessions Processed in 1989 MISCELLANEOUS

Box 24, Folder 1 Dodeka - Construction paper models and metal frame used in the composition of the poem Oversize MC-037, Paper Air. Sketches by Bradford Graves Folder 07 Accessions Processed in 1991-2000

CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 12) CORRESPONDENCE: Contains Taggart's professional correspondence with fellow poets, writers, editors and others connected with his teaching and literary career including Charles Bernstein, Bobby Byrd, Lew Daly, Alan Golding, Bradford Graves, James Laughlin, Hank Lazer, Paul Metcalf, Gil Ott, Pam Rehm, Abraham Veinus, Rosmarie Waldrop, John Wilson and Karl Young. Significant correspondents appearing in previous accessions include Theodore (Ted) Enslin and Bradford Graves. Also included is correspondence with the University of Alabama Press regarding the production process for Songs of Degrees. Materials date from 1970s to 2000.

Box 25, Folder 1 Alcalay, Ammiel 1989 - 1991 Box 25, Folder 2 Alexander, Charles 1985 Box 25, Folder 3 Andre, Michael 1972 - 1974 Box 25, Folder 4 Andrews, Bruce 1996 Box 25, Folder 5 Arnett, Carroll 1970 - 1976 Box 25, Folder 6 Ashbery, John 1984 Box 25, Barone, Dennis 1981 - 1997 Folder 7-10 Box 25, Folder 11 Baude, Dawn Michelle 1992 Box 25, Folder 12 Bell, Charles G. 1980 Box 25, Folder 13 Bernstein, Charles 1989 - 1994 Box 25, Folder 14 Bertholf, Robert 1978 - 1990 Box 25, Folder 15 Black Warrior Review 1991 Box 25, Folder 16 Bobo, Jean-Raphael 1989 Box 25, Folder 17 Booth, Philip 1998 - 2000 Box 25, Folder 18 Breda, Don 1997 Box 25, Folder 19 Buck, Paul 1972 - 1981 Box 25, Folder 20 Butterick, George 1979 - 1980 Box 25, Byrd, Bobby 1975 - 1997 Folder 21-23 Box 25, Folder 24 Byrd, Don 1971 - 1981 Box 25, Folder 25 Calhoun, Douglas 1970 - 1972 Box 25, Folder 26 Callahan, Bob 1980 - 1982 Box 25, Folder 27 Caputo, John 1983 Box 25, Folder 28 Chicago Review (Devin Johnston, poetry editor) 1995 - 1997 Box 25, Folder 29 Clippenger, David 1994 Box 25, Folder 30 Coburn, Robert 1977 Box 25, Folder 31 Cole, Norma 1993 - 1994 Box 25, Folder 32 Compendium Books (Nick Kimberly) 1971 - 1974 Box 25, Folder 33 Cox, Kenneth 1973 - 1975 Box 25, Folder 34 Credences: A Journal of Twentieth Century Poetics 1981 Box 25, Folder 35 Creeley, Robert 1990 - 1997 Box 25, Folder 36 Cuddihy, Michael 1975 Box 25, Custer, Chris 1990 - 1995 Folder 37-38 Box 25, Daly, Lew 1993 - 1997 Folder 39-40 General note Also see Pam Rehm.

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Box 26, Folder 1 Davenport, Guy 1974 Box 26, Folder 2 DeGraw, Shari 1993 Box 26, Folder 3 Derrida, Jacques 1995 - 1999 Box 26, Folder 4 Doyle, Mike 1970 - 1972 Box 26, Folder 5 DuPlessis, Rachel Blau 1975 - 1994 Box 26, Folder 6 Dutton, Geoffrey 1997 Box 26, Folder 7 Educational Alliance (Edwin Frank) 1992 Box 26, Folder 8 Eigner, Larry 1982 Box 26, Folder 9 Elliott, George P. 1979 Box 26, Enslin, Theodore 1987 - 2000 Folder 10-14 Box 26, Eshleman, Clayton 1972 - 1995 Folder 15-17 Box 26, Folder 18 Faville, Curtis 1973 - 1975 Box 26, Folder 19 Fees, Sandra 1997 - 1999, undated Box 26, Folder 20 Fitterman, Rob 1984 Box 26, Folder 21 Foss, Phillip (editor, Tyuonyi) 1989 Box 26, Folder 22 Foster, Edward 1989 - 1994 Box 26, Folder 23 Fourcade, Dominique 1985 Box 26, Folder 24 Fredman, Stephen 1994 - 1997 Box 26, Folder 25 Gander, Forrest 1995 - 1997 Box 26, Folder 26 Gardner, D. undated Box 26, Folder 27 Gatschet, Anne 1994 Box 26, Folder 28 Gingerich, Willard 1975 Box 26, Folder 29 Glover, Al 1975 Box 26, Folder 30 Golding, Alan 1986 - 1995 Box 27, Folder 1 Goodell, Larry 1975 Box 27, Folder 2 Gordon, David 1979 Box 27, Folder 3-6 Graves, Bradford 1970 - 1996 Box 27, Folder 7 Greene, Jonathan 1971 - 1975 Box 27, Folder 8 Guest, Barbara 1991 Box 27, Folder 9 Gunn, Douglas 1994 - 1995 Box 27, Folder 10 Hall, Donald 1989 Box 27, Folder 11 Hamady, Walter 1976 - 1990 Box 27, Folder 12 Harrison, Bob 1993 Box 27, Folder 13 Hatlen, Burton 1995 - 1996 Box 27, Heller, Michael 1971 - 2000 Folder 14-18 Box 27, Folder 19 Hemensley, Kris 1972 Box 27, Folder 20 Hickman, Leland 1988 - 1990 Box 27, Folder 21 Hocquard, Emmanuel 1989 Box 27, Howe, Susan 1984 - 1999 Folder 22-24 Box 28, Folder 1 Ivy's Book Shop Box 28, Folder 2 Johnson, Ronald 1974 - 1991 Box 28, Folder 3 Justice, Donald 1970 Box 28, Folder 4 Kahn, Paul 1977 - 1978 Box 28, Folder 5 Karlins, Mark 1977 - 1982 Box 28, Folder 6 Kelly, Robert 1984 Box 28, Folder 7 Kenner, Hugh 1970 - 1990 Box 28, Folder 8 Kofsky, Frank 1970 Box 28, Folder 9 Kornblum, Allan 1981 - 1983 Box 28, Folder 10 Kostelanetz, Richard 1985 Box 28, Folder 11 Laughlin, James 1970 - 1982 Box 28, Lazer, Hank 1991 - 2000 Folder 12-15 Box 28, Folder 16 Levi Strauss, David 1983 - 1990

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 17 Accessions Processed in 1991-2000 CORRESPONDENCE

Box 28, Folder 17 Lewis, Harry 1979 Box 28, Folder 18 Lightening and Ash (Paul Kremsreiter, editor) 1995 Box 28, Folder 19 Longville, Tim 1972 - 1980 Box 28, Folder 20 Lost Roads Publishers (Wright, C.D. and Gander, Forrest) 1991 - 1993 Box 28, Folder 21 Mac Low, Jackson 1984 - 1993 Box 28, Folder 22 Macaulay, Charles 1991 Box 28, Folder 23 MacIntyre, Wendy 1974 Box 28, Folder 24 Mackey, Nathaniel 1979 - 1999 Box 28, Folder 25 Malanga, Gerald 1975 Box 28, Folder 26 Mariah, Paul 1974 Box 28, Folder 27 Marshall, Jack 1992 - 1995 Box 28, Folder 28 Martin, William 1994 - 1995 Box 28, Folder 29 McAleavey, David 1973 - 1980 Box 28, Folder 30 McDonough, Paul 1977 - 1981 Box 28, Folder 31 McGann, Jerome 1998 Box 28, Folder 32 McInerny, Brian 1977 Box 28, Folder 33 Melnick, David 1972 - 1974 Box 28, Folder 34 Meltzer, David 1970 - 1977 Box 28, Folder 35 Metcalf, Nancy 1999 Box 29, Folder Metcalf, Paul 1979 - 1994 1-2 Box 29, Folder 3 Mikriamos, Philippe 1990 Box 29, Folder 4 Miller, David 1977 - 1989 Box 29, Folder 5 Miller, J. Hillis 1993 Box 29, Folder Morrow, Bradford 1989 - 1997 6-7 Box 29, Folder 8 Mott, Glenn 1991 Box 29, Folder 9 Mottram, Eric 1972 - 1979 Box 29, Folder 10 Mourelatos, Linda Oppen 1984 - 1994 Box 29, Folder 11 Mullen, Harryette 1995 Box 29, Folder 12 Noll, Craig 1993 Box 29, Nowak, Mark 1989 - 1997 Folder 13-14 Box 29, Folder 15 O.ARS (Don Wellman, editor) 1983 - 1989 Box 29, O'Leary, Michael 1997 - 2000 Folder 16-17 Box 29, O'Leary, Peter 1995 - 2000 Folder 18-20 Box 29, Olson, Toby 1978 - 2000 Folder 21-25 Box 29, Folder 26 Ong, Walter 1973 - 1984 Box 29, Folder 27 Oppen, Mary 1974 Box 30, Folder 2 Ott, Gil 1978 - 1991 Box 30, Folder 3 Paideuma (Carroll F. Terrell, editor) 1978 - 1987 Box 30, Palmer, Michael 1974 - 1999 Folder data_value_missing_0dd41d05375812a9d29567343b50579d Box 30, Folder 6 Paul, Sherman 1974 - 1984 Box 30, Folder 7 Perchik, Simon 1974 Box 30, Folder 8 Perlman, John 1975 - 1992 Box 30, Folder 9 Perloff, Marjorie 1992 - 1994 Box 30, Folder 10 Perschetti, Vincent 1982 - 1985 Box 30, Folder 11 Phelps, Donald Box 30, Folder 12 Piper, Paul 1987 Box 30, Folder 13 Piskor, Frank 1969 - 1981 Box 30, Folder 14 Power, Kevin 1977 Box 30, Folder 15 Quartermain, Peter 1982 Box 30, Folder 16 Quasha, George 1976 Box 30, Folder 17 Ramsey, Paul 1979

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 18 Accessions Processed in 1991-2000 CORRESPONDENCE

Box 30, Folder 18 Rasula, Jed 1987 - 1988 Box 30, Folder 19 Ratner, Rochelle 1976 - 1980 Box 30, Rehm, Pam/Daly, Lew 1990-1999, undated Folder 20-23 Box 30, Folder 24 Roether, Barbara 1982 Box 30, Folder 25 Rothenberg, Jerome 1992 Box 30, Folder 26 Royet-Journoud, Claude 1978 - 1983 Box 30, Folder 27 Rudman, Mark 1981 - 1982 Box 30, Rudolf, Anthony (The Menard Press) 1995 - 2000 Folder 28-29 Box 30, Folder 30 Saint Joseph College (Genevieve Slomski) 1994 Box 30, Folder 31 Salt-Works Press (Tom Bridwell) 1979 - 1987 Box 30, Folder 32 Schelling, Andrew 1985 Box 30, Folder 33 Schwerner, Armand 1984 Box 30, Folder 34 Sciver, Lorivan 1994 Box 31, Folder 1 Scroggins, Beth 1997 - 2000 Box 31, Folder 2-3 Scroggins, Mark 1988 - 1999 Box 31, Folder 4 Seidman, Hugh 1973 Box 31, Folder 5 Selby, Spencer 1994 - 1995 Box 31, Folder 6 Shannon, John 1973 - 1976 Box 31, Folder 7 Sher, Gail 1985 Box 31, Folder 8 Shoemaker, Jack 1971 - 1981 Box 31, Shoemaker, Steven 1991 - 1994 Folder 9-10 Box 31, Folder 11 Simas, Joseph 1986 - 1987 Box 31, Folder 12 Smith, Samuel 1996 - 2000 Box 31, Folder 13 Spanos, William 1977 - 1989 Box 31, Folder 14 State University of New York Press 1992 - 1993 Box 31, Folder 15 Strauss, David Levi 1988 - 1993 Box 31, Folder 16 Sun and Moon Press 1988 - 1994 Box 31, Sutton, Walter 1970 - 1993 Folder 17-18 Box 31, Folder 19 Sylvester, Bill 1985 Box 31, Folder 20 Talisman (Ed Foster) 1989 Box 31, Folder 21 Tarachow, Michael 1976 - 1980 Box 31, Folder 22 Thilleman, Tod 1994 - 1995 Box 31, Folder 23 This (Watten, Barett) Box 31, Folder 24 Thomas, J.C. 1973 Box 31, Folder 25 Tipton, John 1997 Box 31, Folder 26 Tisdale, Walter 1989 Box 31, Folder 27 To (Frechie, Seth, editor) 1992 - 1993 Box 31, Folder 28 Tottel's (Silliman, Ron) 1971 Box 31, Folder 29 University at Buffalo, the Poetry/Rare Books Collection (Bertholf, Robert, curator) 1990 Box 31, Folder 30 University of Alabama 1991 - 1993 Box 31, University of Alabama Press 1991 - 1994 Folder 31-32 Box 32, Folder 1 Valery, Juliette 1996 Box 32, Folder 2 Vas Dias, Robert 1973 - 1985 Box 32, Folder 3 Veinus, Abraham 1972 - 1990 Box 32, Folder 4 Vetock, Jeff 1994 - 1995 Box 32, Folder 5 Vincent, Stephen 1994 Box 32, Folder 6 Waldrop, Rosmarie 1973 - 2000 Box 32, Folder 7-8 Watson, Craig 1978 - 1999 Box 32, Folder 9 Weinberger, Eliot 1974 - 1981 Box 32, Folder 10 Weiss, Ted 1970 - 1981 Box 32, Folder 11 Welish, Marjorie 1999 - 2000 Box 32, Folder 12 West, Paul 1990

John Taggart Papers MSS 0011 19 Accessions Processed in 1991-2000 CORRESPONDENCE

Box 32, Folder 13 Wilk, David 1978 - 1982 Box 32, Folder 14 Williams, Jonathan 1974 Box 32, Folder 15 Wilson, John 1973 - 1990 Box 32, Folder 16 Wilson, Keith 1972, 1992 Box 32, Witte, John 1980 - 1981 Folder 17-18 Box 32, Folder 19 Wright, C.D. 1994 - 1996 Box 32, Folder 20 Yau, John 1979, 1991 Box 32, Folder 21 Young, Karl 1974 - 1995 Box 32, Folder 22 Zukofsky, Celia 1979 Box 32, Folder 23 Zukofsky, Paul 1999 Box 32, Folder 24 Zweig, Ellen 1983 - 1984 Box 32, Folder 25 Unidentified correspondents

WRITINGS Scope and Content of Series Series 13) WRITINGS: Arranged in four subseries: A) Poetry, B) Essays by John Taggart, C) Essays by Susan Howe and D) Reviews and Miscellaneous Notes. A) Poetry: Contains drafts and revisions of Taggart's translation of fragments from the lost plays of Aeschylus, several poems grouped by Taggart under the title Crosses, Hopper variations, proofs and the working manuscript of Loop used by the Sun & Moon Press, and other major works entitled Problema, Standing Wave and When the Saints. These materials are arranged alphabetically. B) Essays by John Taggart: Drafts of an essay on the fiction of Toby Olson entitled "Where All Beauty Resides" and drafts of an essay on Charles Olson and Herman Melville. Contains material related to Taggart's collection of essays entitled Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations on a Painting by Edward Hopper. Also included are materials related to Taggart's collection of essays on contemporary poetry and poetics, Songs of Degrees; an essay on the Black Mountain Poets; an essay describing his methodology in the translation of the lost plays of Aeschylus; and notes for the essays "Mere Illustrations: Maurice Sendak and Melville" and "Walk Out: Rereading George Oppen." C) Essays by Susan Howe: Four essays by Susan Howe with marginal notes by Taggart. Arranged alphabetically. D) Reviews and Miscellaneous Notes: Taggart's review of Edward Foster's "Understanding the Black Mountain Poets", his review of Barbara Guest's "Musicality" entitled Elegant Gradations/Flick and Flutter, notes on J. Hillis Miller's "Hawthorne and History" and other untitled notes and drafts of poems.

Poetry Aeschylus Box 33, Folder 1-4 Trans[lation] drafts Box 33, Folder 5 Aeschylus 1-15 (rev.) + rewrites, typescript Box 34, Folder 1-2 Aeschylus 1-15 (rev.) + rewrites, typescript Box 34, Folder 3 Aeschylus 1-50 (rev.) Box 34, Folder 4 Aeschylus 1-135 (rev.) - Version no. 4 Box 34, Folder 5 Pseudo-final draft used for one-more-time-revisions Box 34, Folder 6 Aeschylus complete Box 34, Folder 7 Aeschylus/Fragments - Galley proof Box 34, Folder 8 Aria No. 17 1990 Box 34, Folder 9 Black Cohosh 1998 August 15 Box 34, Folder 10 Carlisle Indian School 1998 August 10 Box 34, Chicago Breakdown - First and second drafts 1999 Folder 11-12 Box 34, Folder 13 Chimneys 1993 Box 34, Folder 14 Chord/ Drone, Crosses - Draft with notes and revisions 1997 Box 34, Folder 15 Concetto Spaziale 1992

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Box 34, Folder 16 Covered Bridge 1992 Box 34, Folder 17 Cranky and Right Tool 1993 Crosses Box 34, Folder 18 Black Cross 1994 Box 34, Folder 19 Criss-Cross 1994 Box 34, Folder 20 Double Cross 1994 Box 34, Folder 21 Greek Cross 1994 Box 34, Folder 22 Green Cross 1994 Box 35, Folder 1 Lost Cross 1994 Box 35, Folder 2 White Cross 1994 Box 35, Folder 3 Amish Buggy 1994 Box 35, Folder 4-5 Bride City 1994 - 1995 Box 35, Folder 6 Clickety Clack 1995 Box 35, Folder 7 Consider 1995 Box 35, Folder 8 Expulsion 1995 Box 35, Folder 9 I'm not Schlierermacher 1995 Box 35, In Croce 1994 Folder 10-11 Box 35, Folder 12 Kiss 1995 Box 35, Folder 13 Last Words and Clifton Chenier is Dead 1994 Box 35, Folder 14 On the Lexicon 1995 Box 35, Folder 15 Ta en te phone 1995 Box 35, Folder 16 New work - Includes letter from Spencer Selby, 1995 April 5 Box 35, Folder 17 Final poems 1996 Summer Box 35, Folder 18 Down and Dirty 1992 Box 35, Folder 19 Greek Lyric Meter 1992 Box 35, Folder 20 Her Time 1993 Hopper Box 35, Folder 21 Hopper variations - Part 1 1995 Box 36, Folder 1-7 Hopper variations, Part 2 - Part 7 1995 - 1996 Box 36, Folder 8 Hopper variations - Excursion into Philosophy (complete), undated Box 36, Folder 9 Hopper poem - Revisions/headnotes 1996 February 4 Box 36, Folder 10 Hopper variations (original) - Corrected pages Box 37, Folder 1 How Sweet It Is 1993 Box 37, Folder 2 In The Upper Room 1991 General note Reworked and retitled (What She Heard).

Box 37, Folder 3 Into the Hill Country 1992 Box 37, Folder 4-6 Jesus' Blood, notes and overlays 1994 Box 37, Folder 7 Kick Poem 1992 Box 37, K. Tropes, Crosses - Drafts Folder 8-10 Loop Box 37, Xerox of first set of proofs Folder 11-12 Box 38, Folder 1-2 Manuscript Box 38, Folder 3 Molloy-like 1991 Box 38, Folder 4 Not Blue Not Violet 1992 Box 38, Folder 5 Nude/ABA - Draft with notes 1997 August Box 38, Folder 6 Number of Times 1991 Box 38, Folder 7 Oak-leafed Hydrangea - Draft with notes 1997 August Box 38, Folder 8 Of The Two Ears 1993 General note Also includes Party Game; Restoration Job, and Dead Tree Beaten Down.

Box 38, Folder 9 Precious Lord 1993

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Problema Box 38, Part I - Part III 1998 Folder 10-14 Box 39, Folder 1-4 Part IV (continued) 1998 December 19 Box 39, Folder 5-6 Later revisions, December 21, 1998 and January 3, 1999 Box 39, Folder 7 Prompted [by jazz]. Galley proof Box 39, Folder 8 Proust's Rats - Draft with notes 1997 September Box 39, Folder 9 Queen Not the Queen 1993 Box 39, Folder 10 Red Man 1992 Box 39, Folder 11 Rhapsodies 1996 March 14 Box 39, Folder 12 Samba De Orpheo 1996 March 29 Box 39, Folder 13 Sainte-Chapelle 1992 Box 39, Folder 14 So Many Treasures 1993 Box 39, Folder 15 Some Other Time 1991 Box 39, Folder 16 Standing Wave (1993) - Original typescript Box 40, Folder 3 Two Words Two 1998 August 10 Box 40, Folder 1-2 Tauler Sentences 1992 Box 40, Folder 4 What Happened (Ron Johnson Poem) When the Saints (1999) Box 40, Folder 5 Last set of revisions (last of the new titles) 1999 January Box 40, Folder 6 Original revised complete draft 1999 January Box 40, Folder 7 Winter/Pink Flamingo 1996 March 16 Box 40, Folder 8 With the Spanish Poets 1993 Box 40, Folder 9 Word Misheard 1994 Box 40, Folder 10 Writer He The Reader She 1993 Essays by John Taggart Box 40, Folder 11 Choose/Chosen, essay on poetry of vision 1990 November 29 Box 40, Folder 12 Ending In Ellipsis, The Sea In Our Ears; Robert Creeley's The Island - Handwritten draft and typescript Box 40, Folder 13 Going for Broke: The Black Mt. Poets Box 40, Folder 14 Instructed 1993 Box 40, Folder 15 Melville, Olson and Ourselves Box 40, Mere Illustrations: Maurice Sendak and Melville, notes and drafts Folder 16-17 Box 41, Folder 1-7 Mere Illustrations: Maurice Sendak and Melville, notes and drafts Box 41, Folder 8 Mnemotechnic: 15 Notes 1998 July 19 General note Paper given at the Boston Poetry Conference, and published in Kenning, no. 3 (Autumn/Winter 1998) under the title "The Roof Falling In: 15 Notes."

Box 41, Folder 9 On Translating Aeschylus Box 41, Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations On a Painting by Edward Hopper Folder 10-16 General note Some drafts under title Hopper.

Box 42, Folder 1-8 Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations On a Painting by Edward Hopper General note Some drafts under title Hopper.

Box 43, Folder 1-2 Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations On a Painting by Edward Hopper Songs of Degrees Box 43, Folder 3-4 Author's copy - typescript photocopy with annotations Box 43, Folder 5 Preliminaries 1994 Box 43, Folder 6 Deep Jewels 1994 Box 43, Folder 7 Spiritual definition of poetry 1994 Box 43, Folder 8 Reading William Bronk 1994 Box 43, Folder 9 Zukofsky's Mantis

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Box 43, Folder 10 How to do things with words 1994 Box 43, Folder 11 Preface 1994 Box 43, Folder 12 Poem as a woven scarf 1994 Box 43, Folder 13 Louis Zukofsky 1994 Box 43, Folder 14 Play and the Poetry of Susan Howe 1994 Box 43, Folder 15 Of the power of the word 1994 Box 43, Folder 16 George Oppen and the anthologies 1994 Box 44, Folder 1 Call me Isabel, call me Pierre 1994 Box 44, Folder 2 Picture of mystery and power 1994 Box 44, Folder 3 An on-going conversation 1994 Box 44, Folder 4 Introduction to Prompted 1994 Box 44, Folder 5 Come shadow come and pick this shadow up 1994 Box 44, Folder 6 To go down, to go into 1994 Box 44, Folder 7 Bibliography 1994 Walk out: Rereading George Oppen Box 44, Folder 8-9 Notes 1994 - 1995 Box 44, Early drafts and notes, includes letter from Mary Oppen Folder 10-11 Box 44, Folder 12 First draft Box 44, Second drafts Folder 13-14 Box 45, Folder 1-2 Third drafts Box 45, Folder 3-4 Fourth drafts Box 45, Folder 5 Revised version 1995 June Box 45, Folder 6-8 Final drafts with corrections and notes 1995 June-July Box 45, Folder 9 Werner Herzog: "Woyzeck", drafts Box 45, Where Beauty Resides: Surface/Texture in the Fiction of Toby Olson Folder 10-11 Essays by Susan Howe Box 45, Folder 12 Envelop Fence Pen Coop Corral Cage Wall, typescript copy with marginal notes by John Taggart Box 45, Folder 13 Statement on Poetics, typescript copy with marginal notes by John Taggart Box 45, Folder 14 Then He is Range, typescript copy with marginal notes by John Taggart, cover letter by Howe 1988 June 22 Box 45, Folder 15 Where Should the Commander Be, copy with marginal notes by John Taggart Reviews and Miscellaneous Notes Box 45, Folder 16 Review of Edward Foster's "Understanding the Black Mountain Poets" 1995 Box 45, Folder 17 Elegant Gradations/Flick and Flutter, review of Barbara Guest's "Musicality" 1991 Box 45, Folder 18 Notes on J. Hillis Miller's "Hawthorne and History" Box 45, Folder 19 Notes, miscellaneous

NOTEBOOKS Scope and Content of Series Series 14) NOTEBOOKS: Taggart's composition notebooks, arranged chronologically from 1983-1991.

Box 46, 1983 - 1991 Folder 1-10 Accessions Processed in 2005, 2015

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CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 15) CORRESPONDENCE: Contains ongoing correspondence with literary editors and fellow poets such as Robert Creeley, Theodore Enslin, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Jackson Mac Low, Linda Oppen Mourelatos and others, including extensive correspondence from Kathleen R. Postle (1960-2000), who served as tenured literature faculty at Taggart's undergraduate alma mater, Earlham College. Some of the files contain literary works written by the correspondents. Arranged alphabetically.

Box 47, Folder 1 Alexander, Charles 1998 Box 47, Folder 2 Angle (Brian Lucas) 1998 Box 47, Folder 3 Antenym (Steve Carll) 1995 Box 47, Folder 4 Arizona Quarterly (Edgar A. Dryden) 1999 Box 47, Folder 5 Augustine, Jane 1998 Box 47, Folder 6 A - Miscellaneous Box 47, Folder 7 Backwood Broadsides (Sylvester Pollett) 2002 Box 47, Folder 8-9 Barone, Dennis 1990 - 2011 Box 47, Folder 10 Batki, John 1974 - 1975 Box 47, Folder 11 Beach, Christopher 1997 Box 47, Folder 12 Beachy-Quick, Dan 2006 - 2007 Box 47, Folder 13 Beckett, Tom 1980 - 1987 Box 47, Folder 14 Bender, Kris (K.B.) 1990 - 1994 Box 47, Blauvelt, Ralph 1991 - 1994 Folder 15-16 Box 47, Folder 17 Bogen, Don (The Cincinnati Review) 2005 - 2006 Box 47, Folder 18 Brooks, Jason 1998 - 2007 Box 47, Folder 19 Buckeye, Bob 1978 - 1987 Box 47, Folder 20 B - Miscellaneous Box 47, Folder 21 Chace, Joel 1999 - 2001 Box 47, Folder 22 Chicago Review (Devin Johnston et. al. editors) 1978 - 2006 Box 47, Folder 23 Clippinger, Annabelle 1994 - 2001 Box 47, Clippinger, David W. 1993 - 1998 Folder 24-25 Box 47, Cohen, Alicia 1999 - 2004 Folder 26-27 Box 47, Folder 28 Cone, Trevor 1998 Box 47, Folder 29 Conjunctions (Bradford Morrow) 2000 - 2002 Box 47, Folder 30 Cox, Cathy 1995 - 1998 Box 47, Folder 31 Creeley, Robert 1994 - 2002 Box 47, Folder 32 Cross, Michael 2006 - 2007 Box 47, Folder 33 Cross Cultural Poetics (Mark Nowak) 1998 - 2001 Box 47, Folder 34 C - Miscellaneous Box 47, Folder 35 Daly, Lew 1995 Box 47, Folder 36 Derrida, Jacques 1997 - 1998 Box 47, Folder 37 Donovan, Tom 2004 - 2005 Box 47, Folder 38 Dutton, G.F. 1997 Box 47, Folder 39 D - Miscellaneous Box 48, Folder 1-6 Enslin, Theodore (Ted) 2000 - 2011 Box 48, Folder 7 Equi, Elaine 1997 Box 48, Folder 8 E - Miscellaneous Box 48, Folder 9 Facture (Paul Naylor) 1999 - 2002 Box 48, Folder 10 Featherston, Dan 2003 - 2008 Box 48, Folder 11 Fees, Sandra 1993 - 2002 Box 48, Folder 12 First Intensity (Lee Chapman) 2001 - 2002 Box 48, Folder 13 Flood Editions (Devin Johnston and Andrea Dunn) Box 48, Folder 14 Fourcade, Dominique 2001 Box 48, Folder 15 Frechie, Seth (TO: A Journal of Poetry and the Creative Arts - Editor) 1992 - 1994 Box 48, Folder 16 Fredman, Stephen 1998

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Box 48, Folder 17 F - Miscellaneous Box 48, Folder 18 Ganick, Peter 1997 Box 48, Gilmore, Lyman 2000 - 2005 Folder 19-20 Box 48, Folder 21 Giscombe, Cecil 1995 - 1998 Box 48, Folder 22 Glass, Jesse 1986 Box 49, Folder 1-2 Golaski, Adam 2001 - 2011 Box 49, Folder 3 Golding, Alan (University of Louisville) 1992 Box 49, Folder 4 Golding-Shapiro, Alan 1996 Box 49, Folder 5 Graves, Bradford and Verna Gillis 1970 - 2004 Box 49, Folder 6 Gunn, Doug 1996 Box 49, Folder 7 G - Miscellaneous Box 49, Folder 8 Haas, Brad 2001 - 2007 Box 49, Folder 9 Hambone 2001 Box 49, Folder 10 Harrison, Bob 1996 - 1997 Box 49, Folder 11 Heller, Michael (postcards) 1987 - 2010 Box 49, Heller, Michael 2000 - 2011 Folder 12-15 Box 49, Folder 16 Hollander, Benjamin 1990 Box 49, Folder 17 Hollenberg, Donna 2007 - 2010 Box 49, Folder 18 Hope, Penelope M. 1998 Box 49, Howe, Susan 2001 - 2010 Folder 19-20 Box 49, Folder 21 Hydock, Tim 1989 - 1991 Box 49, Folder 22 H - Miscellaneous Box 50, Folder 1 Jarnot, Lisa 1997 - 2006 Box 50, Folder 2 Joris, Pierre 1983 - 1996 Box 50, Folder 3 J - Miscellaneous Box 50, Folder 4 Kasseles, Nathalie 1990 Box 50, Folder 5 Kenning (Patrick F. Durgin) 1998 Box 50, Folder 6-7 Kimmelman, Burt 1999 - 2011 Box 50, Folder 8 Kinnard, Cynthia 1981 - 1984 Box 50, Folder 9 Kitaj, Ronald Brooks (R. B.) 2003 Box 50, Folder 10 Kuniya, Mark 1999 - 2010 Box 50, Folder 11 Kunz, Andrew 2001 - 2002 Box 50, Folder 12 K - Miscellaneous Box 50, Lazer, Hank 1995 - 2011 Folder 13-15 Box 50, Folder 16 Lesar, Greg 1999 Box 50, Folder 17 Leviathan Quarterly (Michael Hulse) 2002 Box 50, Folder 18 Lovell, Thoreau 1995 Box 50, Folder 19 L - Miscellaneous Box 50, Folder 20 Mac Low, Jackson 1992 Box 50, Folder 21 Mackey, Nathaniel 2003 - 2005 Box 50, Folder 22 Martin, Chris 2007 - 2011 Box 50, Folder 23 Martin, William 1995 - 1996 Box 50, Folder 24 Mason, Nicola (The Cincinnati Review) 2006 Box 50, Folder 25 McClure, Jane 1975 Box 50, Folder 26 McCord, Howard L. 1972 - 1977 Box 50, Folder 27 McLicker, Todd J. undated Box 50, Folder 28 Messerli, Douglas (Green Integer) 2006 - 2008 Box 50, Folder 29 Messerli, Douglas (Sun and Moon Press) 1996 Box 50, Folder 30 Mir, Stan 2005 - 2011 Box 50, Folder 31 Mittenthal, Robert 1990 Box 51, Folder 1 Morrissey, Patrick 2009 - 2010 Box 51, Folder 2 Morrow, Bradford (Conjunctions Editor) 1986 - 2005 Box 51, Folder 3-4 Mossin, Andrew 2002 - 2011 Box 51, Folder 5 Mott, Glenn 2007 - 2008

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Box 51, Folder 6 Mourelatos, Alexander 2003 Box 51, Folder 7 Mourelatos, Linda Oppen 1995 Box 51, Folder 8 M - Miscellaneous Box 51, Folder 9 Naylor, Paul 2003 - 2004 Box 51, Folder 10 New American Writing (Paul Hoover) 1989 - 2003 Box 51, Folder 11 Noble, Joshua 2000 Box 51, Folder 12 North Carolina Literary Review (Alex Albright) 1994 Box 51, Folder 13 Nowak, Mark 1989 - 2012 Box 51, Folder 14 N - Miscellaneous Box 51, O'Brien, Michael 2004 - 2008 Folder 15-17 Box 51, O'Leary, Michael 2000 - 2006 Folder 18-19 Box 51, O'Leary, Peter 2000 - 2011 Folder 20-23 Box 51, Folder 24 O'Leary, Peter (Postcards) 1999 - 2006 Box 52, Folder 1-2 Olson, Toby 1999 - 2010 Box 52, Folder 3 Olson, Toby (Human Nature) 1999 Box 52, Folder 4 Osterlund, Steve 1971 Box 52, Folder 5 Ott, Gil 1979 - 2001 Box 52, Folder 6 O - Miscellaneous Box 52, Folder 7 Parsons, Marnee 1997 Box 52, Folder 8 Poetry New York (Tod Thilleman) 1999 Box 52, Folder 9 Poetry Project (Kimberly Lyons) 1988 Box 52, Postle, Kathleen 1960 - 2000 Folder 10-14 Box 53, Folder 1 Postle, Kathleen undated Box 53, Folder 2 P - Miscellaneous Box 53, Folder 3 Quartermain, Peter (The Objectivist Nexus) 1994 Box 53, Folder 4 Read, Thomas 2001 - 2002 Box 53, Folder 5-6 Rehm, Pamela 1999 - 2010 Box 53, Folder 7 Rhizome, S. 1997 Box 53, Folder 8 Rivera, Elena 2009 - 2011 Box 53, Folder 9 Rowen, Joe (?) Box 53, Folder 10 Rudd, Roswell 2003 Box 53, Folder 11 Rudman, Mark 1982 - 1990 Box 53, Rudolf, Anthony 2000 - 2009 Folder 12-13 Box 53, Folder 14 Rudy, Maxwell 2002 Box 53, Folder 15 Rumble, Ken 2005 Box 53, Folder 16 Ryan, Francis 1996 - 2006 Box 53, Folder 17 R - Miscellaneous Box 53, Folder 18 Salkind, Wendy 1997 - 2007 Box 53, Folder 19 Scroggins, Mark 1996 - 2002 Box 53, Folder 20 Selinger, Eric Murphy 2001 Box 53, Folder 21 Sherlock, Frank 1996 Box 53, Sherwood, Kenneth 1999 - 2004 Folder 22-23 Box 53, Folder 24 Steensen, Sasha (Colorado Review) 2007 Box 53, Folder 25 Stone, Sarah 2011 Box 53, Folder 26 Stop Press 2003 - 2006 Box 53, Folder 27 Sulfer (Clayton Eshleman) 1999 Box 53, Folder 28 Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli) 1995 - 2000 Box 53, Folder 29 S - Miscellaneous Box 53, Folder 30 Talisman House 1999 - 2000 Box 53, Folder 31 Tamminen, Suzanna 2000 Box 53, Folder 32 Tharp, Shannon 2010 - 2011 Box 53, Folder 33 Tipton, John 2002 - 2004

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Box 53, Folder 34 T - Miscellaneous Box 54, Folder 1 Un Bureau sur L'Atlantique (Emmanuel Hocquard and Judith Crews) 1990 - 1991 Box 54, Folder 2 Valery, Juliette 1997 - 1998 Box 54, Folder 3 Vas Dias, Robert 2008 - 2011 Box 54, Folder 4 Vetock, Jeff 1990 - 1996 Box 54, Folder 5 Voller, Jack G. 1995 Box 54, Folder 6-7 Watson, Craig 1978 - 2007 Box 54, Folder 8 Welch, Marjorie 2000 Box 54, Folder 9 Westbrook, Brad 1990 - 1995 Box 54, Folder 10 Wray, David 2002 Box 54, Folder 11 Wright, C.D. 1992 - 2007 Box 54, Folder 12 W - Miscellaneous Box 54, Folder 13 Yau, John 1991 Box 54, Folder 14 Y, Z - Miscellaneous Box 54, Folder 15 Unidentified correspondents

WRITINGS Scope and Content of Series Series 16) WRITINGS. Arranged in four subseries: A) Poetry, B) Essay and Talks, C) Writing by Others and D) Miscellaneous. A) Poetry: Contains drafts and revisions of the collection of poems published for Flood Editions entitled Pastorelles (2004) which are arranged chronologically. The rest of the subseries is arranged alphabetically and includes additional drafts of Crosses: Poems 1992-1998 (2006), drafts and revisions of There Are Birds (2008), and Is Music: Selected Poems (2010) of which there are extensive drafts of his poem "Kitaj Angels." There is also a substantial number of unpublished poems. The bulk of the material dates from 1999-2010. B) Essays and Talks: Includes "Henry Miller and the Whitman Tradition," "John Ashbery's 'Clepsydra': An Apologetics for the Modernist Poem" (1968), "Some Propositions and Exercises for the Critic of the Modernist Poem," drafts for a talk on George Oppen (2002), an essay on Mozart, the preface for a Zukofsky essay, as well as additional critical essays and talks. C) Writing by Others: Includes typescript copy of a book by Theodore (Ted) Enslin with handwritten notes by Taggart, work by Bradford Graves with Taggart's margin notes, and an essay entitled "Between, Essays for My Poet Friends", with work dedicated to poets such as Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Robert Creeley and John Taggart, author unknown. D) Miscellaneous: Announcements and flyers for poetry readings and performances by Taggart, Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos, Theodore Enslin and others. Also included are reviews of Taggart's published books Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations on a Painting by Edward Hopper and Standing Waves.

Poetry Box 55, Folder 1-2 Aeschylus/Fragments Box 55, Folder 3 After the Party 2003 Box 55, Folder 4 Against the Nurses of Experience Box 55, Folder 5 All the Steps 1988 Box 55, Folder 6-8 Blood Count 2011 Box 55, Certain Sculptures of David Smith 2001 Folder 9-12 Box 56, Folder 1 Certain Sculptures of David Smith Box 56, Folder 2 Clear 2001 Box 56, Crosses Folder 3-10 Box 57, Folder 1 Crosses 2003 Box 57, Folder 2 Daylily 2001

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Box 57, Folder 3-5 Deep Jewels and Songs of Degrees Box 57, Folder 6 Dream of Rocks and Maples 2000 Box 57, Folder 7 The Emperor's Journey to Shu and First Love Box 57, Folder 8 Excursion, draft Box 57, Folder 9 First Love/Some Spanish words Box 57, Folder 10 From the Heart 1994 Box 57, Folder 11 Glance 1999 Box 57, Folder 12 Grey Scale/Zukofsky Box 58, Folder 1-3 Grey Scale/Zukofsky Box 58, Folder 4 Historic Marker Box 58, Folder 5 Horticultural Box 58, Folder 6 Horse Box 58, Folder 7 In the Moods 2002 Box 58, Folder 8 Into the Hill Country Box 58, Is Music 2010 Folder 9-11 Box 58, Folder 12 Jazz is Dead 2002 Box 58, Kitaj Angels 2008 Folder 13-16 Box 59, Kitaj Angels 2008 Folder 1-13 Box 60, Folder 1 Last Letter Box 60, Folder 2 Loyal 1999 Box 60, Folder 3-4 Loop 1990 Box 60, Folder 5 Marianne Moore 2000 Box 60, Folder 6 Matchsticks 2001 Box 60, Folder 7 Not Easily 2000 Box 60, Folder 8 Not This Not That Box 60, Odor of Quince Folder 9-10 Pastorelles Box 60, Folder 11 Aluminum Road 1999 Box 60, Folder 12 Matchless Body/Arrow Beer 1999 Box 60, Folder 13 Thales the Milesian/In A Time of Drought 1999 Box 60, Folder 14 Not Egypt 2000 Box 60, Folder 15 William Bronk 2000 Box 60, Folder 16 Shadyside School 2000 Box 60, Folder 17 Magdalene Poem 2000 Box 60, Folder 18 Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins 2000 Box 60, Folder 19 Pastorelle 4 2000 General note Proof copy and note from Leland Hickman, TEMBLOR Magazine and Press, August 8, 1988.

Box 60, Folder 20 Golden Book 2000 General note Drafts of UC Berkeley talk.

Box 60, Folder 21 Call 2000 Box 60, Folder 22 Patterns 2000 Box 60, Folder 23 In the Kitchen 2000 Box 60, Folder 24 Country Music 2000 General note Drafts.

Box 61, Folder 1 Page 173 2001 Box 61, Folder 2 Pastorelle 5 2001

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Box 61, Folder 3 Pastorelle 6 2001 General note Original typescript draft for book, Parts 1-3.

Box 61, Folder 4 Pastorelle 7 2001 Box 61, Folder 5 A Grove or Green Place 2001 Box 61, Folder 6 Rhythm and Blues Singer 2001 Box 61, Folder 7 Lorine Niedecker's Pier 2001 Box 61, Folder 8 House in Hartford 2001 General note Notes November 8, 1994.

Box 61, Folder 9 Pastorelle 8 2001 Box 61, Folder 10 Motel 2001 General note Grey Scale/ Zukofsky drafts, for Birds book, Part I.

Box 61, Folder 11 Poem with German Words 2001 General note Drafts, for Birds book, Part II.

Box 61, Folder 12 Moonrise 2001 Box 61, Folder 13 The Compulsion to Repeat 2001 General note Draft of discarded poem.

Box 61, Folder 14 At the Counters' Ball 2001 General note Drafts.

Box 61, Folder 15 Pastorelle 9 2001 Box 61, Folder 16 Car Museum 2002 General note Early version of Crosses.

Box 61, Folder 17 Five/On the Line 2002 Box 61, Folder 18 Pastorelle 10 (Where to Plant a Tree) 2001 Box 61, Folder 19 Work 2002 Box 61, Folder 20 Irenaeus of Lyons 2002 Box 61, Folder 21 Pastorelle 11 2002 General note Poem for Ted.

Box 61, Folder 22 Parmenidas/Fragments 3 and 15a Box 61, Folder 23 Ideas for a Movie 2002 General note Originally "Mild Shouting Poems."

Box 61, Folder 24 Platonic Poem 2002 Box 61, Folder 25 Pastorelle 13 2002 Box 61, Folder 26 Pastorelle 14 2002 Box 61, Folder 27 Pastorelle 15 2002 General note Dehiscence part I.

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Box 61, Folder 28 Pastorelle poems, various draft pages Box 62, Folder 1-3 Pastorelles, draft pages Box 62, Folder 4 Revisions of Pastorelles 11 + 12 2003 July 27 Box 62, Folder 5 Revisions 2003 August 27 Box 62, Folder 6 Final proof Box 62, Folder 7 On the Nature of Things, last poem for Pastorelles 2003 September 3 Box 62, Folder 8 Proof and correspondence from Flood Editions 2003 September 20 Box 62, Folder 9 Proof pages for Flood Editions 2004 February 28 Box 62, Folder 10 Perfect Gifts Box 62, Folder 11 Play within the Play 2001 Box 62, Folder 12 Poem for Jennifer 2002 Box 62, Folder 13 Portugal poems Box 62, Folder 14 Postcard 1999 Box 62, Folder 15 Precise Notation General note Drafts.

Box 63, Folder 1-2 Refrains for Robert Quine, part I and II 2004 December 17 Box 63, Folder 3 Rejected poems Box 63, Folder 4 Rhapsodies and other poems Box 63, Folder 5-8 Robert the Reader/Robert the Misreader General note Drafts.

Box 63, Rothko Chapel Poem 1985 Folder 9-10 General note Notes and letter from Leland Hickman, re: printing in TEMBLOR 2, September 28, 1985.

Box 63, Folder 11 Sentence 2001 Box 63, Folder 12 Shingles 2002 Box 63, Folder 13 Show and Tell/Robert Creeley Box 63, Folder 14 Slash General note Drafts.

Box 63, Folder 15 Slow Song for Mark Rothko 2002 General note Program with poem by Taggart for The University of Vermont, Spring Collage Concert, March 10, 2002.

Box 63, Folder 16 Song After 2001 Box 63, Folder 17 The Spring Poem 2002 Box 63, Folder 18 Straight With Her 2002 Box 63, Folder 19 Sudden Flare 2001 Box 63, Folder 20 The Sweet New Style 2002 Box 63, Folder 21 Tale of Tail General note For Robert Van Dias' birthday celebration.

Box 64, Folder 1-2 There are Birds 2008 General note Proof for Flood Editions, includes correspondence, June 16, 2008.

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Box 64, Folder 3 They Say General note Drafts.

Box 64, Folder 4 Tongue In 2001 Box 64, Folder 5-6 Triangles for Hope General note (Poem for My Daughter).

Box 64, Unveiling/Marianne Moore Folder 7-11 General note Worksheets, Parts I - V.

Box 65, Unveiling/Marianne Moore 2005 - 2007 Folder 1-10 General note Drafts.

Box 65, Walk-Out (piece on George Oppen) Folder 11-12 General note Notes part I and 2.

Box 66, Folder 1 Walk-Out (piece on George Oppen) General note Talk on Discrete Series Part 3.

Box 66, Folder 2 Wall/Stairway General note Drafts.

Box 66, Folder 3 Wedding Photo General note For Sandra and for Ben, drafts.

Box 66, Folder 4 Drafts of poems 2009 Box 66, Folder 5 Drafts of poems 2012 General note For Cecil Giscombe's Mixed Blood magazine, UC Berkeley.

Box 66, Folder 6 New poems 1999 Box 66, Folder 7 New work undated Box 66, Folder 8 Various poems 2003 September 29 General note Islands, Fast Line, Lapith, Marianne Moore, Pastorelle 2, drafts.

Box 67, Folder 1 Various poems General note The Nature of Things, Triangles, In Deliberative Sequence, Refrains for Robert Quine, Show and Tell, drafts.

Box 67, Folder 2 Various poems General note Yellow Line, Show and Tell, For a Daughter, Slash, drafts.

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Essays and Talks Box 67, Folder 3 Arcadia Transcended: Mozart's The Magic Flute Box 67, Folder 4-5 Emerson's Bad Motorcycles (Chicago Art Institute talk) 2003 General note Drafts.

Box 67, Folder 6 George Oppen: One Line - Delivered at Dactyl Foundation 2002 Box 67, Folder 7 Henry Miller and the Whitman Tradition. A study in the mechanics of literary tradition Box 67, Folder 8 Introduction to book by Bradford Graves Box 67, Folder 9 John Ashbery's "Clepsydra": An Apologetics for the Modernist Poem" 1968 Box 67, Folder 10 Moving on to the Beginning, drafts of Zukofsky preface Box 67, Folder 11 Oppen Symposium talk 2008 April 8 General note "On Singings and Thinking."

Box 67, Folder 12 Some Propositions and Exercises for the Critic of the Modernist Poem Box 67, Folder 13 Writing from Art General note Coimbra Seminar, drafts and correspondence.

Writing by Others Box 68, Folder 1 Enslin, Theodore - To An Unknown Shore 2009 - 2010 General note Copy of book with notes by Taggart.

Box 68, Folder 2 Bradford Graves - A Mythology of Stone Box 68, Folder 3 Between, Essays for My Poet Friends, unknown author 2000 Miscellaneous Box 68, Folder 4 Poetry readings/performances, various Box 68, Folder 5 Reviews, various

NOTEBOOKS Scope and Content of Series Series 17) NOTEBOOKS: Includes a notebook dedicated to Taggart's translations from Greek for his work Aeschylus. Other composition notebooks are arranged chronologically from 1991-2011.

Box 68, Folder 6 Aeschylus Box 68, 1991 May 15 - 1998 Folder 7-13 Box 69, Folder 1-8 1998 - 2007 April 21 Box 70, Folder 1-8 2007 April 21 - July 18, 2011

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