OGLMC 0308 Thomas McGrath Papers

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1 Folder

1. Guggenheim Fellowship - application and correspondence 2. Poem - "Lear's Murzzuschlag Song: Allegro Energico E Passionato" for Edward Dahlberg, September 1968 3. Poem - "Elegy on Fortification's Illusions" for Truman Nelson, by David Cumberland 4. Correspondence July 1968 - August 1968 5. Correspondence January 1968 - June 1968 6. Correspondence September 1966 - October 1966 7. Correspondence August 1967 8. Correspondence July 1967 9. Correspondence June 1967 10. Correspondence May 1967 11. Correspondence April 1967 12. Correspondence January 1967 13. Correspondence (no dates) 14. Correspondence January 1969 - June 1969 15. Correspondence and poetry related to Crazy Horse 1967 16. Correspondence (no dates) 17. Correspondence from Allen Planz (no dates) 18. Correspondence April 1966 19. Correspondence May 1966 - June 1966 20. Correspondence August 1966 21. Correspondence June 1966 - July 1966 22. Correspondence February 1966 - March 1966 23. Correspondence 1966 24. Correspondence November 1966 - December 1966 25. Correspondence January 1965 - December 1965 26. Correspondence August 1968 - September 1968 27. It #9, , featured poet in a small poetry magazine 28. Correspondence (no dates) 29. Correspondence January 1964 30. Correspondence February 1964 31. Correspondence July 1964 - August 1964 32. Correspondence January 1962 - August 1963 33. Correspondence May 1963 - August 1963 34. Correspondence September 1963 - December 1963 35. Correspondence November 1962 36. Poetry submitted to Thomas McGrath by Mel Weisburg and others 37. Book review of The Disinherited 38. Screen play The Bravest Boat September 11, 1961 39. Screen play, first version of KEF 40. The Ages of Time a script for the Hamilton Watch Company by Thomas McGrath and Lloyd Ritter, 2nd revision - January 1959 41. Screen play, The House of Man 42. Screen play, Revised to include suggestions by Dr. Bacon and Rand McNally staff 43. Screen play, The Johnson County War by Michael Cimino 44. Ms. "NYC" (New York City). Probably by Gene Frumkin 45. Ms. of a Mel Weisburg novel (untitled) and correspondence from c. February 1963 46. Correspondence from Open Skull Press, 1968 and excerpt from Letter to an Imaginary Friend 47. Poems from Henry Wolff, 1969 48. Poems from Arnold Rattenburg 49. Poetry submitted to Crazy Horse (C. 1970) 50. Screen play Silent Running by Dennis Lynton Clark and Robert Dillon, with notes by Thomas McGrath 51. Photocopy of Disenchantment or Default? a Lay Sermon, by E.P. Thompson 52. The Incidence of War and Other Poems, by R.P. Kingston 53. Correspondence and essay from Jack Beeching 54. Poems from Sid Gershgoren 55. Preview June 1973, Volume 7, Number 3 "Dakota is Everywhere - A Conversation with Thomas McGrath" 56. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, typed with proper line spacing and length 57. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, typed with corrections 58. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, "1st typed copy from the handwritten Ms. in the Barredor notebook" 59. KEF, a screenplay by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies 60. PARADISE, a screen play by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies 61. Conquering Horse, a screen play by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies 62. HIKA (Kenyon College), V. 28, #3, Spring-Summer 1966. Poems by Robert Hazel 63. Sun Dance by Vahan Gregory, including a letter to Thomas McGrath, 1965 64. Shooting script outline for Philadelphia '76, by Francis Thompson

Box 2 Folder

1. Correspondence April 1969 - July 1969 2. Miscellaneous screen plays 3. 1 copy (in Russian) of the Newspaper "The Union Administration of Authors of the USSR" (1 August 1963), including a poem by Thomas McGrath 4. Copy of manuscript, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II 5. Handwritten notes and drafts of poems, as well as typed drafts. The following poems are included (listed by title or first line):

"-30 Fahrenheit" "All those ambulatory Queers" "October leaf-fall" "Loon" "Pheasant Season" "After his girl cut out" "Riddle" "Epitaph of a man devoured by monsters" "That's the Way it Goes" "Used Up" "Young Man Manhattan" "The Exiles Epitaph" "For Eugenia" "At Fargo" "After moondown" note: See "Sound of One "Obituary" Hand" "Terrors and Advantages" "For Alvaro" "The Sound of One Hand I (concl)" "On Moving Into A New Home" "The Stars" "The Weather Report" "For a book by Charles Humbolt" "Thalassa! Thalosa!" "Love Belongs to the North" "The End of the Line" "To His Muse" "The World; the Lovers; Falling Stars" "The man attacked by the bear" "The Dreams of Wild Horses" "Sound of One Hand" "Blues for the Old Revolutionary Women"

6. Copy of a typed manuscript, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II 7. Correspondence February 1962 - June 1962 8. Correspondence July 1962 - August 1962 9. Correspondence September 1962 - October 1962 10. Correspondence November 1962 11. Correspondence December 1962 12. Correspondence (no dates) 13. Script fragments 14. Handwritten manuscript Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part I 15. Untitled manuscript, Selected Poems: 1942-1962 . The following poems may be found in this folder:

Part One Wartime "The Odor of Blood" "Homecoming" "Sailing North "Remembering that Island" on a Troop Ship" "War in the "Night in Wartime" Aleutians" "Here is a Skeleton" "Encounter" "The Spectators" "Crash Report" "The Repeated "How it All Looked After the War" Journey"

Part Two, Memories of the Depression "Fords "Cal the Last of the Real Wobs" Leaving" "The "Gate to the Dream" Depression" Going to "Strike Days" College" "In Baton ""Depression in Baton Rouge" Rouge" "Stealing from the President of "Studying the Metaphysicals in Baton Rouge" the University of "

Part Three Something Permanently Good "Hot, Great- "Love in a Bug" Hearted Women" "Such a Simple Love" "Chaos" "Fanfare for a "Legend" Procession of Heroes" "Ode for the "Pueblo! Pueblo!" American Dead in Korea" "Like the " The Tourists" Watchman in Agamemnon "In Los "One Who Has Looked at the Dark" Angeles" "Epitaph"

16. Manuscripts for Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975 . This folder contains the following poems (listed by title or first line):

"Lakes" "A swan of wool and buffalo hides" "Near the Rum River" "A Journey" "Poem" "Someone has lost" "Counting Song" "Big Snow I" "Tongue Twister" "Big Snow II" "Manifesto" "Tomasito's Poem For His Father" "Waking" "December 24, 1974" "Lakes" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "Counting Song" "December 24, 1974" "Manifesto" "Tomasito's Poem for His Father" "Tomasito's Poem for His Mother" "The Runaway Hamburger (A Delicious Story)" "Someone Has Lost" "The Crocuses My" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "Big Snow I" "Big Snow II" "Tomasito's Conundrums" "Waking" "Someone Has Lost" "Lakes" "Near the Rum River" "Poem" "A Journey" "A swan of wool and buffalo hides"

17. Dummies of Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975 18. A Sound of One Hand (short poems), "second original draft." This folder contains the following poems (listed according to title or first line)

"Yes" "Be Careful" "All month long I have heard the owls" "Among the Things We Are Left to Do" "The stars! The stars!" "You, Yannis Ritsos" "Affirmation" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest" "Greek Wedding" "Alas!" "ON THE OCCASION of the launching of the "Eclipse" Red" "in the smallest tidepool" "Advice" "Morning and evening" "A Theory" "In fog . . ." "Ghost fire" "My dandelions" "Remembering Issa" "Comfort" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Somewhere Ahead" "Surprise" "A barbwire fence" "The Scalping Knife" "Summer" "The Cottonwood" "A million puffs of smoke!" "Arrivals" "What We Don't Know Kills Us" "THE UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL" "Moon" "The Need for Dictionaries III" "Gloomy woods, and this highwayman" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn" "The stars" "Darkness of winter solstice" "The long wound of the summer--" "Pheasant Season" "Sleepy Birdsong. . ." "For Alvaro" "You out there, so secret" "I am travelling, travelling" "The grand days," "Umber sundown" "Across the winter-white coulee hills" "Anonymity has a name" "One farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice" "The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?" "Empty canvas." "The stick of the blind man" "Ear to hear;" "Empty playground," "Did you bring me a present? the little boy "Down the small and crooked road" asks." "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting." "Why I never married" "Loon" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Full moon and silence." "Powers of Darkness" "Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening" "I see the moon." Your knife's a most particular guest," "The man attacked" "The Exiles Epitaph" "That's the Way it Goes" "A Season" "Presumptions" "Poem" "At Fargo" "The Need for Dictionaries II" "Horses of the moon--" "The two-faced sea--" "Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Callings" "In the list of one thousand false "In Other Worlds" addresses" "After moondown" "A Field of Sunflowers" "The slow sulfur" "The Need for Dictionaries" "Legislators of Darkness" "Loud November rain" "Faults of Darkness" "A Distant Republic Demands" "A History of Language" "Hushed bright pond stillness." "Cross Country Flight" "Solidarity" "Proportions" "Resurrections" "Terrors and Advantages" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Half-life" "What We Think We Know" "Lightcrackle." "Among the trophies of Death" "Small things, soft," "Nothing is lost" "From Old Days" "Weights and Measures" "In a Landscape West of Eden" "Hunter in the cold field." "The Classics" "How it Feels to be Saved"

19. Movie at the End of the World, poems and addresses of individuals to receive copies 20. South Dakota Review, "Questions on Place in Literature and Responses by Thomas McGrath" (handwritten draft) 21. Miscellaneous poems by Thomas McGrath, including Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part III. This folder contains the following poems which are listed by title or first line:

"Letter to an Imaginary Friend (Part Three)" Typed "Totems MS VI" handwritten with handwritten corrections "Afternoon of a McGrath" "Totems VI" typed handwritten "Afternoon of a McGrath" typed "Late in the early dark" "Totems V" typed with handwritten "Totems V" handwritten corrections "Totems V" typed with handwritten corrections "Hard Bought" "In Search" "Remembering Loves and Deaths" "Body of woman, shadows of black and white" "A Tomasito Poem" "Revisionist Poem --Pope" "Why We Love Wakan Tanka" "Revisionist Poem : Machado" "Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "A Tomasito Poem" "John Grass Says" "Night Work" "For Tomasito" "You, Yannis Ritsos" "The true darkness of the forest" "Somewhere Ahead" "Footnote" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Comfort" "Remembering Issa" "My dandelions" "Ghost Fire" "End of a Season" "In the Stoa of Attalus" "Alas!" "In fog. . ." "A theory" "A Sound of One Hand" "Solon's Song" "Conundrum" "Advice" "In the smallest tidepool" "Greek Wedding" "Children's Games" "The Children" handwritten "Totems (I)" "Totems (IV)" typed with "The Children" typed with handwritten corrections handwritten corrections "Totems (IV)" handwritten "Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Revisionist Poem" "Toward Paradise" "The Preterition of Aquarius" "Preterition Again" "Totems (I)" typed with "A Sociology of Instincts" handwritten correction "Totems (I)" typed "Totems (II)" typed "Totems (III)" typed "Totems" typed "Mottoes for a Sampler on Historical Subjects" "The Last War Poem of the War" "Blues for Cisco Houston" "Something is Dying Here" "Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of "Long Distance From a War" Robert Bly's Old Poems" typed "Praises" "The Return" "In the Pentagon Parking Lot October '67" "What Wakes Us" "Travels of an American in Search of God" "A Homecoming for Odysseus" "Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of Bob "People coming with their arms full Bly's Old Poems" handwritten of books" "Crow Cry," "Children's Games" "The Lineaments of Unsatisfied Desire" "Sound of 1 Hand" "Alas!" "Children's Games" "Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of "The Little Judgement" Robert Bly's Old Poems" Typed "Pictures From the Lost Continent of Currier & "Salute" Ives" "Eclipse" "For Tomasito" "For Tomasito" "In the Sleep of Reason" "Eclipse" handwritten "Summer" "The Cottonwood" "A million puffs of smoke!" "Surprise" "For Tomasito" "The Scalping Knife" "The Legends" "A barbwire fence" "The Sea Inside Us" "The Scalping Knife" "A barbwire fence interrupting" "Where Janie Went In" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by "Where Janie Went In" Monsters" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Where Janie Went In" "Summer lightening shivers in the "Terrors and Advantages" high pine" "What is named" "Horses of the "The Sound of One Hand" moon--" "The Sound of One Hand I" "The Sound of One Hand I" "Horses of the Moon--" "Horses of the Moon--" "Arrivals" "The thinning fog--" "Arrivals" "Summer night O Magnificant" "Loon" "Arrivals" "The two--faced sea--" "The Sound of One Hand XIII" "The two--faced sea--" "Darkness of winter solstice;" "Everything vertical" "Everything vertical" "The high hunting hawk--" four "Sultry afternoon. The old dog" copies "The list of one thousand false addresses" four "Everything Verticle" copies "Summer night O magnificent" "The Sound of One Hand (concl." three copies "West wind sleet cold November breath" "The stick of the blind man" "The Sound of One Hand" "The long wind of winter" "Darkness of winter solstice" "Summer night O magnificant" "Ear to hear;" "The Sound of One Hand II" "Did you bring me a present? the "Down the small and crooked road" little boy asks" "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting" "To speak is the vice" "Yes" "Among the trophies of Death:" "Empty canvas" "All is not well?" "Empty canvas." "The Sound of One Hand" "Anonymity has a name;" "After moondown" "Down the small and crooked road" "The Sound of One Hand IV" "I am travelling, travelling;" "The Sound of One Hand VIII" "Umber sundown" "For Alvaro" "Sleepy birdsong. . . " "Pheasant Season" "The long wound of the summer--" "Across the winter-white coulee hills" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Hunter in the field," "The Sound of One Hand" "Full moon and silence" "Powers of Darkness" "Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening" "I see the moon" "Your Knife's . . . " "Man Attacked by Bear" "The Exiles Epitaph" "That's the Way It Goes" "A Season" "Presumptions" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Poem" "At Fargo" "After Moondown" "In November empty fields:" "A Field of Sunflowers" "The Sound of One Hand" "The Sound of One Hand" "Darkness of winter solstice;" "The long wound of the summer--" "Pheasant Season" "Sleepy birdsong. . ." "For Alvaro" "You out there, so secret." "I am travelling, travelling. . ." "The grand days," "Across the winter-white coulee "Umber Sundown" hills" "What we don't know kills us" "Little old deer in the dry creek" "The Sound of One Hand" "Small things, soft," "Arrivals" "After moondown" "Anonymity has a name;" "November empty fields:" "One farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice" "The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?" "Empty canvas." "Among the trophies of Death:" "The stick of the blind man" "Ear to hear:" "Empty playground," "Down the small and crooked road" "Did you bring me a present? the little boy asks?" "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting." "Surprise!" "Summer" "In the Sleep of Reason" "Gloomy wood, and this "The scarecrow shivering in November corn." highwayman" "Moon" "Full Moon" "The Stars" "Hunter tin the cold field." "Across a thousand miles of snow" "The seas inside us" "In the Sleep of Reason, Monsters "The Little Judgement" are Born" "Affirmation" "Song" "The Deaths of the Poets" "Sound of One Hand" "Their darkness is not our "Meanwhile like a tired magician, from his" darkness" "Dawn Song" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "The long wind of winter" three "The Classics" copies "Among the Things We Are Left to "Hushed bright pond stillness" three copies Do" three copies "Loud November Rain." three copies "From Old Days" "What We Think We Know" "The Sound of One Hand XII" "A History of Language" "The Sound of One Hand III" "The Sound of One Hand" "Half-life" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Terrors and Advantages" "Resurrections" "A Distant Republic Demands" "After His Girl Cut Out" "Proportions" "Why I Never Married the Queen of --" "Legislations of Darkness" "The Sound of One hand" "A Sound of One Hand X" "Faults of Darkness" "Loon" "Weights and Measures" three "Cross Country Flight" copies "The Need for Dictionaries" "Classicism" "Why I Never Married the Queen "Classicism" of----" "Loon" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Terrors and Advantages" "Summer lightening shivers in the high pine" "The Need for Dictionaries II" "Horses of Moon" "The two--faced sea--" "Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Summer night O magnificant" "In the list of one thousand false "Callings" addresses" "In Other Worlds" "The slow sulphur" "Full moon and silence." "The stars" "Hunter in the cold field." "How it Feels to be Saved" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn." "Gloomy woods, and this highway" "The Need for Dictionaries III" "Moon" "The Unfairness of It All" "What We Don't Know Kills Us" "Small things, soft," "Arrivals" "Somewhere Ahead" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Comfort" "Remembering Issa" "My dandelions" "Ghost fire" "In fog. . ." "A Theory" "Morning and evening" "Advice" "In the smallest tidepool" "Peace! Land! Peyote" "Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest" "Greek Wedding" "Alas!" "Love Song" "The Dream Range" "Poem for the Front Door" "Totems" "Outside My Window" "The Preterition of Aquarious" "A Sociology of Instincts" "A Tomasito Poem" "Why We Love Wakan Tankan" "Revisionist Poem: Machado" "Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "Lament for Pablo Neruda" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Westwind sleet cold November "Yes" breath:" 2 copies "After moondown" 2 copies "The Sound of One Hand" 2 copies "Summer lightening shivers the high pine." 2 copies "Terrors and Advantages" 2 copies "Some Kinds of Knowledge" 2 copies "Loon" 2 copies "Why I Never the Married the Queen of ______" 2 "Full Moon and silence" copies "Summer Night O Magnificent" 2 copies "October leaf-fall" 2 copies "Hunter in the field," 2 copies "In November empty fields:" "Classecism" 2 copies "The Sound of One Hand" 2 copies "Be Careful"

22. Correspondence January 1965 - March 1965 23. Correspondence April 1965 - May 1965 24. Correspondence May 1964 - November 1964 25. Correspondence December 1964 26. 60-minute tape, "The Poetry and Jazz Players to Their Favorite Poet, Thomas McGrath" 27. 30-minute tape containing four Thomas McGrath poems read to blues-jazz instruments 28. Academic material related to Thomas McGrath's tenure as a professor at North Dakota State University 29. Correspondence January 15, 1970 - July 6, 1970 30. Correspondence July 8, 1970 - August 5, 1970 31. Correspondence August 7, 1970 - September 2, 1970 32. Correspondence September 5, 1970 - October 5, 1970 33. Correspondence October 6, 1970 - November 20, 1970 34. Correspondence November 3, 1970 - November 10, 1970 35. Correspondence November 11, 1970 - November 17, 1970 36. Correspondence November 17, 1970 - December 9, 1970 37. Correspondence December 9, 1970 - January 8, 1971 38. Correspondence January 19, 1971 - February 11, 1971 39. Correspondence February 12, 1971 - March 29, 1971 40. Correspondence March 29, 1971 - April 10, 1971 41. Correspondence and photocopies of two notebooks (no dates) 42. Correspondence January 21, 1971 - June 8, 1971 43. Correspondence February - June 1971 44. Correspondence July 5, 1971 - September 28, 1971 45. Correspondence October 7, 1971 - November 30, 1971 46. Correspondence December 3, 1971 - December 23, 1971 47. Correspondence, from Jack Beeching 1971 48. Correspondence January 1972 - February 1971 49. Correspondence March 1, 1972 - April 29, 1972 50. Correspondence May 1, 1972 - June 26, 1972 51. Correspondence July 1, 1972 - August 29, 1972 52. Correspondence September 1972 - October 1972 53. Correspondence November 1972 - December 1972 54. Correspondence January 1973 - February 1973 55. Correspondence March 1973 - April 1973 56. Correspondence May 1973 - June 1973 57. Correspondence July 1973 58. Correspondence August 1973 - September 1973 59. First Manifesto, by Thomas McGrath. Published in 1940 by Alan Swallow. Photocopy of Thomas McGrath's testimony before the Committee on Un-American Activities

Box 3 Folder

1. Correspondence March 1973 - September 1973 2. Four cassette tapes of "A Poetry Reading at Grand Forks, ND," November 1973 3. Correspondence October 1973 - December 1973 4. Correspondence January 1974 - August 1974 5. Correspondence September 1974 - November 1974 6. Correspondence March 1975 - October 1975 7. Character references written in support of Thomas McGrath's case in a trial for manslaughter in October 1975. 8. Correspondence January 1975 - March 1975, including some from 1973 9. Correspondence April 1975 - October 1975 10. Correspondence (no dates), including poems from David Martinson 11. Poetry 12. Proofs, Letters to Tomasito 13. Poetry 14. Drafts/Proofs 15. Correspondence 1976 16. Correspondence 1977 17. Correspondence 1978 18. Miscellaneous 19. Correspondence and Miscellaneous 1985 20. Interview with Thomas McGrath by James A. Rogers 1984 21. Manuscript of "Letters and Leaves: McGrath's Indian Culture versus Whitman's Poetic Tradition" Published in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, Winter 1985 22. Manuscript of "Seven Poems" by Thomas McGrath. Published in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, 1985 23. Manuscript: "All But the Last," pp 1-150 (This Coffin Has No Handles) 24. Manuscript: "All But the Last," pp 151-300 (This Coffin Has No Handles) 25. Manuscript: "All But the Last," pp 301-435 Comments, (This Coffin Has No Handles) 26. Manuscript: This Coffin Has No Handles, (pp 1 - 150). Printed in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol.52, No. 4, Fall 1984 27. Manuscript: This Coffin Has No Handles, (pp 151 - 300). 28. Manuscript: This Coffin Has No Handles, (pp 301 - 435).

29. Manuscript: Echoes From Inside the Labyrinth 30. Final Manuscript: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II 31. Final Manuscript: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part IV 32. Notebook: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part IV, Section III 33. Manuscript drafts: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part III BOX 3 FOLDER: 34. Miscellaneous Poems (A-M), arranged alphabetically The following poems may be found in this folder: (listed by title or first line)

"Anniversaries: for Don and Henrie Gordon" 2 "Another Christmas Carol" 3 copies copies "At Momentary Loss of Belief in the Wisdom of the Common People and, of "Another Quandry" course, the Bastards Who Own and Operate Them" 2 copies "At Port Townsend: for Sam and Tree" "Behold the Woman" 2 copies "Birthday Poem" "Birthdays" "Blues for the Old Revolutionary "Both Camps" Woman" "The Bravest Boat" 3 copies "Burdens" "Butterfly or Emperor?" "The Children of Contemporary Cities" "The Citizen: Dreaming" 3 copies "Cold Ceremony" "The Defeat of the Novelist" "Definition" "The Dream Range" "The End of the Line" "Epitaph for a Pythagorean" "Even Song" 2 copies "A Field of Sunflowers" "Flight" "Flint and Steel" "Flying Home" "For a book by Charles Humbolt" "For a dancer" "For Alvaro" "For Joe McGrath" "Waiting to Die All Over (after cutting "For Lyla -- Ada, Minnesota, Oct. '85" 2 copies daylilies at dusk)" by David Martinson "For Naomi Replansky, Poet and Cartographer, Recently Departed From Los Angeles: Upon the "The Ghost" "Fiesta" Occasion of Receiving From Her a Poem in Most Shameless Praise of San Francisco" "Bad Cess" "The Owl" "Graveyard Shift" "Tomasito Says" "Flying Home" "Graveyard Shift" "Let Us Turn Over the Page" "Guerillas (I)" 4 copies "How the Revolution was Betrayed: for Att. "In the Dream Time" Benjy Muggles" "In the High Country" "In the Papal Ring" 6 copies "Instructions for the Dead" "Invitation" 2 copies "Joe Hill at Harvard" 2 copies "A Kind of Dedication" "Lament for Pablo Neruda" "Landscape With Birds" 4 copies "To His Muse: Or Blues My Naughty Sweetie "The Language of the Dead" 2 copies Gave Me" "Last Will and Testament" 2 copies "Long Distance From a War" "Long Goodbye" "Look on My Works!" 2 copies "Loon" 2 copies "The Fatigue of Objects" "At Lost Lake" "Newtonian Law" "Illumination" "Mediterranean" 2 copies "Mediation" "The Migration of Cities" 4 copies "Mystery" 35. Miscellaneous Poems (N-Z) The following poems may be found in this folder: (arranged by title or first line)

"Near Pah-Gotzin-Kay" 2 copies "NOTES ON THE REVOLUTION" "Nuclear Winter" 2 copies "Offering" "Old Times" "On Moving Into a New House" "Ontology" "Poem" "Pieces of String" "Poem at the Winter Solstice" 2 copies "Poems by Tomasito" "Power" "Praises IV" 4 copies "Presumptions" "Rediscovery" 3 copies "Rune" "Four Poems Thomas McGrath "Senior Citizens" Salute #2" 2 copies "A Sixth Heresy of Parson Chance" "Song" "Spiritual Exercises" "Suspicion of Some Kinds of Solitude" "To His Muse: or Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave "Than Never" 2 copies Me" "Too Bad" "Towards the End" 3 copies "Transformations of Old Silver Crossing the "Trail Blazers" 2 copies Continent" 2 copies "The Underground" 6 copies "The Unfairness of it All" "The Useless Passions" "At Sunrise" "Watchman! What of the Night?" "Wayfaring Stranger" "Why He Can't Tell You Where Nicaragua Is -- Not "Welcome" Even the Continent"

36. Notes and other miscellaneous 37. Photocopy: Annual Report of the Committee on Un-American Activities for the Year 1953

Box 4 Folder

1. Three successive transcripts of an interview with Thomas McGrath conducted by James McKenzie and Robert Lewis in 1985. 2. Four Poems" by Thomas McGrath submitted to North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4 (1988). 3. Proof sheets, "Conversations with Thomas McGrath" written by James McKenzie and printed in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4 (1988). 4. Revised copy of "Conversations with Thomas McGrath." 5. Draft and proof sheets, "What is There To Celebrate?: The Maple River Rag" written by Thomas McGrath and published in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 56, no. 4 (1988).

SERIES I: CEILI

6. Ceili - announcements and programs 7. Ceili - original versions of letters sent by the Loft 8. Ceili - correspondence between Lois Vossen, program coordinator, and members of the discussion panel that was part of the Ceili program 9. Ceili - correspondence, regrets 10. Ceili - correspondence, tributes to Thomas McGrath from friends and admirers unable to attend 11. Ceili - correspondence, acceptance letters 12. Ceili - recording and photography releases for participants 13. Ceili - lodging arrangements for out-of-town participants and guests 14. Ceili - funding, grant applications for funds for the three-day Ceili 15. Ceili - thank you letters 16. Ceili - newspaper clippings 17. Articles submitted to special supplement to The View, published by The Loft, issued in honor of Thomas McGrath's seventieth birthday 18. Special supplement to The View (1986),a literary publication produced by The Loft, issued in honor of Thomas McGrath's seventieth birthday 19. Miscellaneous

SERIES II: "A CELEBRATION OF THOMAS McGRATH"

20. Newspaper clippings - obituaries 21. "Celebration" - mailing lists 22. "Celebration" - RSVPs 23. "Celebration" - Poem written by Lyle Dagget in honor of Thomas McGrath, entitled, "late report from an agent of the worker's revolution temporarily detained behind class enemy lines: longshot says carry on" 24. A View From the Loft, Volume 13, number 5, December 1990. Contains a memorial tribute to Thomas McGrath. 25. Miscellaneous announcements for memorials held in honor of Thomas McGrath

26. Correspondence - Jack Beeching and Thomas McGrath, poetry by Thomas McGrath. The following Poems may be found in this folder:

"Ars Poetica; Or: Who Lives in the Ivory "In the Hills of Old Wyoming" Tower?" "Poor John Luck and the Middle Class Struggle; Or "The Year the Spots Fell Off the Dice" the Corpse in the Book-keeper's Body" "Mr. and Mrs. Foxbright X. Muddlehead, at Home" "The Roads Into the Country" "Remembering That Island" "Ode For the American Dead in Korea" "A Woman Praying Through the St. Louis "The Trouble with the Times" Blues" "Against the False Magicians" "The Passion of the Heavenly Detective" "Envoi" "Proletarian in Abstract Light" "Escape" "The End of the World" "The Roads into the Country" "Against the False Magicians" untitled, the first line reads: How odd! the fishers "Definition" think: "Longshot O'Leary Says It's So Peaceful in "The Mobile" the Country" "The Homilies of Bedrock Jones" "Poem in Autumn" "The Little Oddessy of Jason Quint, of Science, "Thinking of the Olympic Rifle Matches" Doctor" "The Compleynte of Dreamy Dan Dollar a "Ritual Song" Rentier in a Time of Revolution" "Mottoes for a Sampler on Historical "The Rituals at the Chapel Perilous" Subjects" "A Woman Praying Through the St. Louis Blues" "The World of the Perfect Tear" untitled, the first line reads: "Down the "The Commissar of Creampuffs" small and crooked path" "In Praise of a Dead Body" "The Uneven Development of the Heart" "Mr. and Mrs. Foxbright X. Muddlehead, at Home" "The Several Fortunes of Jonah Hope" "Thomas Paradox's First Epistle to the "Icon" Philistines" "Legend" "Think at This Hour" "Poem" "The Pleasures of the Great Salt Lake" "Tourists at Ensanada" "A Sixth Heresy of Parson Chance" "Miss Penelope Burgess, Balling the Jack" "For Alice For the Time Being" "Judge Tantrum Foote Lays Down the "The Long Enchantment" Law" "Prisoners" "Amelia's Waltz" "De Poetica" "Political Song for a New Year" "Legendary Progress" "Ode for the American Dead in Korea"

27. Correspondence - Jack Beeching, Thomas McGrath, and Alice McGrath. The following poems written by Thomas McGrath may be found in this folder:

"In a Season of War" "Letter to Paul" "In a Season of War" -printed in booklet form, no "Monsters of the Happy Land" publisher or date listed "Peregrinations of the Southern "Christmas Music" Conscience" "The Activities of Art and Science" "The Progress of the Soul" "Come Into the Garden" "Factory Fences" Untitled -written on the corner of a "A Note on the Late Elections" -printed on a postcard napkin "Gone" "When We Pass" "A gate between us" "Armondo" "A Shepherd at Glengarrif"

28. "Thomas McGrath - A Memoir," written by Jack Beeching in 1992. 29. Correspondence - Ann Lewin Diament and Thomas McGrath, including poems written by Diament for McGrath, 1986-1989 30. Obituaries 31. Miscellaneous

Box 5 Folder

SERIES I: PROJECTS REGARDING THOMAS MCGRATH

1. Correspondence - regarding assorted written projects involving Thomas McGrath 2. Correspondence, precis and notes for a paper presented at the Modern Language Association's winter meeting - 1976 3. Correspondence - with Thomas McGrath, 1977-1989, including a photocopy of the "Christmas Section II" from Letter to an Imaginary Friend 4. Correspondence - related to Frederick Stern's paper, ""The Delegate for Poetry": McGrath as Communist Poet". 5. Various manuscript versions of ""The Delegate for Poetry": Thomas McGrath as Communist Poet" 6. Correspondence and proposals regarding proposed special sessions for the Modern Language Association's annual conferences, 1982, 1983 7. Correspondence with George Day regarding Stern's article "Thomas McGrath" which was submitted to the Literary History of the American West, 1982-1983, (manuscript included) 8. Review of Thomas McGrath's "Passages Toward the Dark", submitted to Western American Literature, 1983 9. Correspondence and abstracts - "Thomas McGrath and the Long Poem", presented at Cleveland State University, 1986-1988 10. Manuscript - "Thomas McGrath and the Long Poem", 1986 11. Final page proofs - "Thomas McGrath: A People's Poet", published in the American Oxonian, 1991 12. Review of Thomas McGrath's book, Death Song, submitted to Western American Literature, 1991 13. Various articles about Thomas McGrath and his poetry, not written by Frederick Stern

SERIES II: THE REVOLUTIONARY POET IN THE UNITED STATES

14. Correspondence between Frederick Stern and various publishers regarding Stern's proposal for his book, 1987-1989 15. Correspondence - University of Missouri Press, 1987-1989 16. Correspondence - Copyright permission for previously published pieces used in Stern's book 17. Correspondence between Frederick Stern and contributing authors, 1983-89 18. Advertisements for and book reviews of Stern's book 19. Miscellaneous 20. Manuscript - The Revolutionary Poet in the United States: The Poetry of Thomas McGrath 21. Continuation of manuscript from Folder #19 22. Manuscript - as submitted for copy editing, 1988 23. Copy-edited page proofs of Stern's book 24. Continuation of copy-edited page proofs 25. Edited printout of Stern's book, June 22, 1988 26. Proofs of Stern's book, September 8, 1988 27. Dacotah Territory, No. 2, February 1972 28. Catalog of the Thomas McGrath Exhibit held at the NDSU library from 1 May 1991 - 30 June 1991. 29. Correspondence from Thomas to Alice McGrath January 1981 - August 1984 30. Correspondence from Thomas to Alice McGrath Undated, probably from the 1950s 31. Alice McGrath's FBI file (photocopy) 32. Miscellaneous including a poem by Alice McGrath

Box 6 Folder

1. "Teaching Tom McGrath: Imaginary Friends and Real Students" by Rane Arroyo, 1994. 2. Interview with Alice McGrath, conducted by Glenn Sheldon. Published in Pittsburgh Quarterly, Winter 1991-92 issue. 3. Revolution: The Significance of "the Fifth Season" in the Poems of Thomas McGrathby Glenn Sheldon, undated. 4. Correspondence; 1975-1988. 5. Newspaper Clippings: 1980-90 6. Memorial Service for McGrath invite list: Chicago, Illinois, March 15, 1991 7. American Book Award; 1984 8. Pittsburgh Quarterly containing interview with Alice McGrath, 1992 9. Writings by or about Thomas McGrath 10. Paper: "McGrath at a Biblical Age" By Fred Whitehead, undated 11. Correspondence - miscellaneous: 1975-1985 12. Correspondence between Alice and Tom McGrath: 1949-1991, undated 13. Correspondence between Alice and Tom McGrath - typed version: 1949-1991, undated 14. Correspondence - to Nickson from McGrath: 1954-1989 15. Correspondence - miscellaneous: 1968-1996 16. Book cover to Staves: A Book of Songs, by Richard Nickson and introduction by McGrath, 1977. 17. Title pages of McGrath's books - photocopies, inscribed, and signed to Nickson from McGrath. 18. Border Crossings, Fall 1985. An interview with McGrath on p. 104. 19. People's Culture, Vol. 2 No. 1. McGrath featured on p. 23. 20. Foreign Literature, Vol. 11, 1987. McGrath on pp. 65-147. 21. Foreign Literature, Vol. 12, 1987. McGrath on pp. 58-122. 22. Pink, David 23. North Dakota Quarterly, Fall - 1982; tributed to McGrath 24. Crazy Horse - edited by Tom and Eugenia McGrath. 25. Dakota Arts Quarterly; Summer 1977, Vol. 1 No. 1 - Containing McGrath Poetry. 26. The Subversive Agent 27. North Dakota Quarterly, Winter 1972, Vol. 40 No. 1. Interview with McGrath. 28. Correspondence 1987-1995. 29. Newspaper Clippings. 30. The Review, Vol. 18, No. 3. Featuring McGrath. 31. "The Grass Eats the Horse". By Eric Blau. 32. North Dakota Quarterly; "Act Three of 'The Grass Eats the Horse': A Play about the American Poet Thomas Matthew McGrath". By: Eric Blau. 33. Investigation of Communist Activities in the Los Angeles Area - Part 5 (testimony of McGrath). 34. The Independence Shavian, Vol. 27 No. 1- 2/1989. McGrath - p. 17. 35. Poetry. 36. Foreword to Permit Me Refuge by McGrath. 3 37. People's Culture, Jan.-April 1991. Featuring McGrath. 38. Miscellaneous. 39. The Shining Times, May Day, 1998, edition devoted to Thomas McGrath. 40. Correspondence between Robert Lewis and Richard Nickson: 1999 41. Correspondence between Robert Lewis and Richard Nickson pertaining to photographs and an audio tape: 1999 42. Report on Rhodes Scholars from North Dakota: 1947-48 43. University of North Dakota Notice of Appointment: July 7, 1977 44. Thomas McGrath, “The Movie at the End of the World”: 1979 45. “A Note on the Late Elections” (written on a postcard): 1979 46. Poetry reading advertisement: March 31, 1981 47. University of North Dakota “News”: May 6, 1981 48. Poems: “A Visit to the House of the Poet.” By Thomas McGrath: 1987 “Alabanza para Thomas McGrath.” By Sergio Ramirez. “Homage al Gran Poeta ?Tom McGrath.’” By Fernando Silva 49. Correspondence to Alice McGrath: 1984-1991 50. Newspaper clippings from the October 21, 1988 edition of Publishers Weekly and the September 16, 1991 edition of . 51. Reports from the United States Department of Justice: 1953 52. Letter from Billy Collins to Alice McGrath: June 3, 2003 53. Newspaper Clippings: 1990

SEPARATIONS RECORD

Audio tape #1670, "Celebration of Thomas McGrath," was recorded on March 15, 1991 at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Worker's Union Hall in Chicago. Invited guests reminisce and read poetry in a memorial tribute to Thomas McGrath, nationally known poet from North Dakota. Thomas McGrath's ex-wife Alice serves as emcee and speakers include Stud's Terkel and Robert Bly.

Video Tape #422, "Celebration of Thomas McGrath," was also recorded on March 15, 1991 at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Worker's Union in Chicago. There are problems with the video tape near the end of the program.

Two audio tapes of Thomas McGrath reading and a conversation with Robert Lewis have been placed in the Department's Audio-Visual Collections and labeled #1671 and #1672. Video tape #423, "The Movie at the End of the World: A Portrait of Thomas McGrath", has been placed in the Department's Audio-Visual Collections. Reading of Thomas McGrath's poetry, discussion of his family background and his work experience, including organizing workers in New York, and discussion of his writing are included in this film.

Video Tape #420 begins with a poetry reading by Thomas McGrath at the Loft in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is then interviewed in his Moorhead, Minnesota home. present are Dale Jacobson and Robert Edwards (interviewer). Topics discussed include McGrath's experiences during the 1930s and 1940s, his exposure to the class struggle, striking workers, and the Communist Party. Recorded in the summer of 1983. Video tape #421 is a continuation of #420. It includes interviews of McGrath in several locations with varying groups of people. Topics discussed include McGrath's work writing documentaries, U.S. poets and how they compare to each other, and various types of political poetry, Welsh mining, Mexican history, and Hopi, Mayan and Aztec mythology. Recorded in the summer of 1983.

Audio tape #1676, Thomas McGrath reading selected works from Letter to an Imaginary Friend and The Movie at the End of the World, has been separated from this collection and added to the department's Audio Tape Collection. The date and place of this reading are unknown.

Two broadsides advertising a public reading of Thomas McGrath's poetry at the University of North Dakota. The sketch of Thomas McGrath used on the broadsides was drawn by Nancy McGrath and is dated 1981. The broadside does not state the year the reading was given.

This addition to the Thomas McGrath Papers consists of The Bread of This World, a single-poem book containing a work by Thomas McGrath. The book is signed by Gaylord Schanilec, publisher and illustrator. It is number 178 of 210. The eighteen page book is hand-bound and illustrated with Schanilec's color wood engravings, and was published in 1992 by Midnight Paper Sales Press. Call number: PS3525.A24234 B74 1992b

Staves: A Book of Songs was removed from the collection and deposited in the general stack of the Chester Fritz Library.

Materials large in size were placed in the Orin G. Libby Oversized Collections. This material consists of David Pink programs and other programs that were given in the honor of Thomas McGrath.

Also separated from the McGrath collection were two books. They are:

Onthebus: A New Literary Magazine, by the Bombshelter Press of Los Angeles, issue 8 & 9; Vol. III, No. 2, and Vol. IV, No. 1. The book contains an interview with McGrath on pp. 256- 266. It was placed in the Special Collections book stacks.

...All But the Last. by Thomas McGrath, 1984. (Russian translation).

Two audio tapes were also separated from the McGrath Papers and placed in the Audio Tape Collection in the Department. They are numbered: 1801 and 1802.

The unidentified interview with Thomas McGrath was separated and placed into the Orin G. Libby Audio Tape Collection. The audio tape number is 1924.

Also, the poetry readings of Thomas McGrath and Richard Nickson on audio cassette were separated and placed the Orrin G. Libby Audio Tape Collection. The audio tape number is 1925.

One oversize folder containing a 1986 edition of the Heartland Bookletter with an article about McGrath entitled “McGrath at 70 Years,” and a 2003 edition of the Los Angeles Times Book Review containing an article entitled “The Best of Poetry at the Worst of Times” was placed in the Oversize File Cabinets. The material was placed in Oversize Folder 2.

PHOTOGRAPHS

The following photographs were separated and deposited into the Orin G. Libby Photograph collection. They are numbered:

OGL #308-1a,1b OGL #308-2a,2b,2c,2d OGL #308-3a,3b,3c

Photographs were taken out of the collection and placed in the Orin G. Libby Photographic Collection. They are numbered OGL #308-48 through OGL#308-56.

Seven photographs of Thomas McGrath were separated and placed in the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection. OGL308-57 Thomas Mcgrath with Richard Nickson, “Little Tom”, and Eugena: 1968 OGL308-58 Thomas Mcgrath with Richard Nickson and “Little Tom”: 1968 OGL308-59 Thomas Mcgrath with Richard Nickson and “Little Tom”: 1968 OGL308-60 Thomas McGrath with Alice and Richard Nickson: undated OGL308-61 Thomas McGrath: undated OGL308-62 Thomas McGrath: undated OGL308-63 Thomas McGrath: undated

Nine photographs were separated and added to the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection.

OGL#308-64 McGrath, 2714 Marsh Street: undated OGL#308-65 McGrath: undated OGL#308-66 McGrath: undated OGL#308-67 McGrath with Marion just before divorce: undated OGL#308-68 McGrath with Marion: undated OGL#308-69 McGrath with Marion: undated OGL#308-70 McGrath with Alice in Seattle before Columbus Awards: undated OGL#308-71 McGrath with “Laura”: undated OGL#308-72 McGrath with “Dan”: undated